NERD Summit at UMass this weekend - includes FREE workshops for kids 7 & up

The NERD (New England Regional Developers) Summit is a three day conference of talks, workshops, coding challenges, and fun with the local tech community!

More details about the conference are available at nerdsummit.org We are offering a number of workshops for kids and teens at NERD Summit 2015.  The details are here:
https://nerdsummit.org/news/kids-can-be-nerds-too

Saturday, September 12th

• Build a webpage with HTML & CSS 
• Draw in 3D with SketchUp!
• Game Programming with Construct 2
• JavaScript is Everywhere!
• Got an App for That?
• Graphics Programming with Processing
• Scratch Programming
• Green Screen Video Fun
• Minecraft
• Programming in Python

Sunday, September 13th

• EV3 Robotics
• Rube Goldberg chain reaction - WeDo Robotics
• Makerspace with Arduino

You can find the full list of workshops on our website. All workshops are free, but space is limited, so please register to let us know you are coming.

Mission

The New England Regional Developers, Inc is a registered US 501(c)(3) non-profit whose purpose is to organize, educate and advance the skills of web designers and developers in the New England region. It seeks to do this primarily through nurturing a self-sustaining mentoring community for its local IT industry.

NERDs has identified and defined the major issues facing its community and industry today. The most visible symptom of these issues is the growing talent gap in the field of IT.

NERDs believes that our IT teams are not as strong as they could be due to irrationalities lingering from society's past. Using proven techniques to achieve better diversity and inclusion in IT, the NERDs project identifies areas of the population that have a harder time making it into IT careers and works to remove those challenges or barriers.