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• see our BBC Videos!• Go Berserk wins at EastSideAwards!
• try our BETT quiz to win a Go Berserk resource!
Go Berserk is at BETT having a great time and really going Berserk. Take a look at what's were doing here and see some pictures below!
Come and join the fun on Twitter (@GoBerserkDog or @GoBerserk1) or at the stand!
Go Berserk has won the Education category at the Eastside Awards. We are so proud to be able to make a difference in our hometown! Congratulations to the runners up - Complete Construction Training Services Ltd and Victoria Park Primary School.
Go Berserk has been chosen to represent Northern Ireland Educational Technology along with 5 other companies by Invest Northern Ireland at the BETT Educational Technology conference in London in January.
We're really excited to be going!
We'll be running a competition to win Go Berserk books and talking to lots of people. See our Go Berserk BETT page, including the competition questions, here, and our BETT profile.
We have been nominated in the
Go Berserk is developing an app based on our first book. It should be on the iStore in the new year and available for Android and Windows later
Our Go Berserk videos for the BBC's Make It Digital platform are finally online!
We've been working with the BBC for the past year making videos to show how to produce websites. The videos are presented by Rosie and James, 12 year old web geniuses. We hope you enjoy them.
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We were asked to be part of the Q & A session at the 3rd Annual Digital South Youth Event at the Ulster Museum organised by the South Belfast Partnership Board.
The W5 web design competition was held in the amazing IT suite in Strathearn College on 10th March, with 10 schools competing both primary and post primary to become the Allstate Young Software Engineers 2016. All the websites were of a very high standard including PHP coding, embedded videos and Scratch games and online quizzes.
The teams were asked to design a website from scratch about the Blue Society. All the had were notes and resources they had prepared, some Go Berserk books for help, and their knowledge of HTML, CSS and PHP and a lot of team work.
After lots of difficult deliberations, the judges eventually awarded the KS2 Young Software Engineer prize to Cairnshill primary school and the KS3 Young Software Engineer prize to Wellington College.
Well done to everyone who took part.
We were really impressed!
On a trip to Kathmandu in Nepal for the charity HOPE Worldwide, Daniel Doyle and Jing Jing Tao taught two sets of children how to make websites using Go Berserk materials. They had a class of four one day which grew to 10 the next day, and despite having a power cut at one stage Daniel and Jing were able to teach the excited children web design.
Gareth McAleese started teaching pupils at St Joseph's College the Go Berserk materials in an after school Tech Club. We were expecting some 12-13 year old pupils, but word got out and we needed up teaching a lot of 12-13 year old pupils as well as sixth form pupils, one of whom is intending to complete the Make Code Work 4 U certification. In two days he went through Go Berserk books 1 and 2 and is now well on the way to becoming a certified web genius.
The 12 - 13 year old pupils are hoping to enter the W5 competition in March. We wish them good luck.
W5, Allstate and Go Berserk will be holding a website design competition at Strathearn School in Belfast on 10th March where teams of pupils will compete to design a website from scratch based on theme of "Creating a Blue Society."
Post primary and primary schools in the Greater Belfast Area were selected by W5 to compete in the competition. They will each be given 4 one hour training sessions on how to make a website using the Go Berserk materials from a STEM ambassador or Allstate employee.
On the competition day, each team will have to create a site about the use and importance of the sea. Teams will be judged on their team work and coding skills.
Good luck to everyone taking part!
Go Berserk was nominated as a potential entry in the European Business Awards for Northern Ireland. We attended a great meeting at the headquarters of RSM McClure Watters in Belfast, and talked with the other candidates about how to make businesses successful. Good luck to the Solmatix Renewables entry that was selected to represent Northern Ireland at the awards.
Go Berserk's contribution to the discussion was summarised as follows in the RSMEye publication for November 2015:
Discover It
Discovery is at the heart of a recently established business, Go Berserk, who provide children and young people (some as young as 8 years old) with the skills to design and develop their own web sites.
Whilst many are aware of the worldwide programming opportunities they were inspired by the discovery that primary school age children are more responsive to learning the programming skills required. Gareth McAleese, one of the co-founders, pointed out:
"Younger children have no fear or inhibitions. !ey easily take on board new ideas and skills and we as a business look to do the same, setting ourselves apart (and ahead) of others."
The Belfast Telegraph produced three more Go Berserk supplements released for free with the newspaper on 2nd to 4th September! The supplements are the first three chapters of Go Berserk making more websites with CSS. Both Go Berserk making websites with HTML and CSS and Go Berserk making more websites with CSS are on sale at the Belfast Telegraph shop.
The Belfast Telegraph is releasing Go Berserk tutorials for download. New tutorials will be added every week! You can see the tutorials online here
The first six tutorials are available this week:
Tutorial 6: Make writing bigger or smaller
Tutorial 5: Reverse writing
Tutorial 4: Tooltips
Tutorial 3: Weird HTML tags
Tutorial 2: HTML mistakes, part 2
Tutorial 1: HTML mistakes, part 1
Go Berserk is featured in another article in the Belfast Telegraph which emphasises how girls are better at coding than boys when they use the Go Berserk materials. The article is based on the results from a Stranmillis report published in 2013. You can see more details here. You can see the article online here
Go Berserk is featured in an article in the Belfast Telegraph. You can read the article here.
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Each prize is a Red HP Pavilion Laptop(15-p246sa 15.6").
There will be 6 laptops awarded to the best websites. The prizes will be given in the following categories:
Prizes will be awarded on Friday 1st May at the BelTech festival held in Titanic Belfast.
The Belfast Telegraph produced three Go Berserk supplements released for free with the newspaper on 25th to 27th February! The supplements are the first three chapters of Go Berserk making websites with HTML and CSS. Both Go Berserk making websites with HTML and CSS and Go Berserk making more websites with CSS are on sale at the Belfast Telegraph shop until 10th April.
The Belfast Telegraph has released adverts in the paper and on TV to announce the Go Berserk supplements that they will publish at the end of the week. There's also an article on us in the paper here.
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Please note, this competition is open to pupils and teachers living in Northern Ireland only.
There will be 6 prizes awarded to the best websites. The prizes will be given in the following categories:
Prizes will be awarded on Friday 1st May at the BelTech festival held in Titanic Belfast.
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