Getting all set up for our primary school visits this week. We are showcasing our FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland team and robotics within our school 🤖😁 Mercy Mounthawk Ross - Learnit & Creative Hut

First day of our 2nd year coding Battle Bot tournament was very successful! Final rounds at the end of the week 🥊🤖 ELECFREAKS Micro:bit Educational Foundation Mercy Mounthawk STE(A)M in Junior Cycle thanks to Stu Lowe for the inspiration 😁

🧑🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻 2nd year coding students at Mercy Mounthawk have an army of ELECFREAKS Cutebots ready to go to battle! Code and armor are finalized and ready to battle next week! 🤖🚗🤺Micro:bit Educational Foundation STE(A)M in Junior Cycle

✨ Battle Bots✨ Day 1 of our Battle Bots tournament with Mercy Mounthawk 2nd year coding students. Some great designs starting to come together, can’t wait to see them in action 🤖 🥊 ELECFREAKS Micro:bit Educational Foundation Stu Lowe

Great start to Computer Science Week at Mercy Mounthawk with 1st yr students Marcel & Fionn creating a Reading Range Guitar.
By detecting the value of the distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the baffle, the buzzer then emits different tones Micro:bit Educational Foundation ELECFREAKS 🎸👨🏻‍💻

This is amazing! What a great use of the sensor 🎶🎸. #MicrobitChampion

Great start to Computer Science Week at Mercy Mounthawk with 1st yr students Marcel & Fionn creating a Reading Range Guitar.
By detecting the value of the distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the baffle, the buzzer then emits different tones Micro:bit Educational Foundation ELECFREAKS 🎸👨🏻‍💻

Best of luck to Tadhg O’Brien 1st yr, taking part in the 2024 Bebras Challenge National Final in Maynooth University on Saturday! Scoring extremely well in the first round of the computational thinking challenge to secure his spot in the final. 🦫🧑🏻‍💻 Irish Computer Society Maynooth University

Well done to Mercy Mounthawk 2nd year coding students who used the micro:bit radio function to communicate wirelessly with another micro:bit. They created remote controlled cars using cutebots ELECFREAKS Micro:bit Educational Foundation STE(A)M in Junior Cycle

Some great projects created in Makerspace last Friday using the ELECFREAKS wonder building kit and microbits!! Such a great resource 😁 LEGO Education Mercy Mounthawk Micro:bit Educational Foundation

2nd year coding students continuing their microbit work and introducing the “CuteBots”. Some great coding done today to get them moving 😁 ELECFREAKS Micro:bit Educational Foundation Mercy Mounthawk

We were delighted to come 3rd place in the robot game and reach the Knockout semifinals at the FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland All Irelands! Well done to Cully Coders who performed so well on the mat all day!! IET Education Mercy Mounthawk

We were delighted to be interviewed by IET Education yesterday at the FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland Finals about our innovation project hobbyhub.ie 😁 Mercy Mounthawk

Final training session before the FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland All Ireland Finals tomorrow! We are very excited! Jeffrey and tools are all ready to go 🤖 Mercy Mounthawk Ross - Learnit & Creative Hut

Great fun in Makerspace on Friday using our new ELECFREAKS 32 in 1 kits. Students coded up microbits to get their “rotating chairs” LEGO builds moving!! Micro:bit Educational Foundation LEGO Education Mercy Mounthawk

Sharing our innovation project! We had local Ballymac GAA club PRO take a look at HobbyHub. She was very impressed and thinks it is a great way to connect you with exciting activities, clubs, and events. Ross - Learnit & Creative Hut FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland hobbyhub.ie 😁

Great fun yesterday at Makerspace. We looked at the ancient Japanese art of paper folding- origami 📄. Some amazing creations. Mercy Mounthawk

Yesterday at the 2024 Speak Out in Cork City Hall, YSI guide Rachel O'Neill was selected by her students and the YSI panel as one of the most helpful and inspirational guides. Well done, Rachel!

Woohoo 🎉 we have just been awarded Overall Champions at the Leinster regional competition! (18 teams competed). We are over the moon. Be sure to check out our innovation project hobbyhub.ie 🤖🏆 FIRST LEGO League UK and Ireland Ross - Learnit & Creative Hut Mercy Mounthawk DCU Institute of Education

Best of luck to the team tomorrow!