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Girl Geek Tea Party: HAMA time!

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Girl Geek Tea Party

Title: Girl Geek Tea Party: HAMA time!
Location: MadLab
Description: Manchester Girl Geeks is a not-for-profit group which organises networking events, talks and hands-on workshops for women and girls with an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

 Date:29-04-2012
Start Time: 14:00
End Time: 16:30

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For April’s Girl Geek Tea Party, Hama expert Rosarie O’Donahoe will be coming in to show us how to make things using Hama beads. These are tiny tubular plastic beads which you can arrange into shapes and then melt with an iron to produce a brilliant plastic picture you can take away with you and use as a coaster, badge or super-bling massive pendant.

Mario sprites made from Hama Beads, by JayEmBee on Flickr

But since this is Girl Geeks, we won’t just be making any old shapes out of Hama beads! Girl Geek Kat Reeve will be there with a fine selection of old-school 8-bit retro computer games.You can have a go at playing computer games like they used to in the old days, then make your favourite characters or sprites out of the beads. We will provide some computer game sprite images for you to work from, or you can make up your own!

QR code to Manchester Girl Geeks website, made at qrcode.Kaywa.com

And not only this, but also mathematician and Girl Geek Katie Steckles will be telling us all about QRcodes, the magical 2D barcodes which are all over the internet these days. She’ll explain for us how the data is encoded into a QR code and how they work, and then you can use your Hama beads to make a QR code of your very own to take home, linking to a website of your choice or just encoding your name or a secret message.

Tickets
We only have limited spaces for this event. In order to make sure that everyone who wants to come gets a ticket, and to cover costs for the Hama beads, we charge £3 for this event. We will provide some tea & biscuits, but we would like to point out that our venue – MadLab – appreciates donations. Look out for the donation cat :)

What To Bring…

  • Your favourite mug
  • If you have any, a Hama beads peg board
  • Your favourite biscuits, cake, cupcakes, tea, coffee (we’ll have the basics, but in case you fancy something slightly more interesting… :)
  • Your friends, sisters, mums, cousins, daughters, colleagues… who might be interested in learning something new!

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Girl Geek Tea Party – Coding Workshop

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Girl Geek Tea Party

Title: Girl Geek Tea Party – Coding Workshop
Location: MadLab
Description: Manchester Girl Geeks is a not-for-profit group which organises networking events, talks and hands-on workshops for women and girls with an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2012-02-19
End Time: 17:00
Booking: Get your places here!



Manchester Girl Geeks celebrate the Code Year 2012
- with an intro to coding!

codecademy screenshot

With the help of www.codecademy.com, our very own girl geek Kat (aka @binarykitten) will walk and talk you through the first steps to writing your own code (in JavaScript, to be precise). This short intro class is aimed at absolute beginners, who have little or no knowledge of programming, as well as people who would like to refresh their coding skills. Children from age 10 and older who know how to use a computer are more than welcome, too! Feel free to bring your young ones and share a laptop with them.

The class will be around 2 hours with plenty of explanations of what and why you are coding. And as always, there will breaks for tea, biscuits and chats with other girl geeks and soon-to-be geeks!

Tickets
We only have limited spaces for this event. In order to make sure that everyone who wants to come gets a ticket, we charge our usual £2 booking fee for this event. We will provide some tea & biscuits, but we would like to point out that our venue – MadLab – appreciates donations. Look out for the donation cat :)

For more information and to book your ticket, please visit: http://ggtpcoding.eventbrite.co.uk/

 

 

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Girl Geek Tea Party v20 – Geeky Show and Tell

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Girl Geek Tea Party

Title: Girl Geek Tea Party v20 – Geeky Show and Tell
Location: MadLab
Description: Manchester Girl Geeks is a not-for-profit group which organises networking events, talks and hands-on workshops for women and girls with an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-11-27
End Time: 16:00








Do you have a passion for technology? What gadget could you not live without? What wonder of science do you think the world should know about? Come to the next Manchester Girl Geeks Tea Party and share your knowledge with girls (and guys) who want to know more. We’re having a Girl Geek “Show and Tell” and you’re invited to come along, learn something new and teach us about the things you find fascinating.

Tickets

This event is free and we will provide some tea & biscuits, but we would like to point out that our venue – MadLab – appreciates donations. Look out for the donation cat

What To Bring…

• A short talk or presentation

• A laptop could be useful with working wifi, we might have some web based show-and-tells

• Your favourite mug

• Your favourite biscuits, cupcakes, tea, coffee (we’ll have the basics, but in case you fancy something slightly more interesting…

• Your friends, sisters, mums, cousins, daughters, colleagues… who might be interested in doing some techy stuff.

On the day the first 15 minutes will be set aside for tea, biscuits & booking your time slot. There’ll be a list of slots available when you arrive and we’ll allocate them on a first come first serve basis.

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SkepLit Book Group meets Girl Geek Tea Party #17

Monday, May 9th, 2011

SkepLit Book Group

Girl Geek Tea Party

Title: SkepLit Book Group meets Girl Geek Tea Party #17
Location: MadLab
Description: For our August tea party at MadLab, we’ll be teaming up with the SkepLit book group! SkepLit is the official book club for Greater Manchester Skeptic Society, which meets twice monthly for a talk and social.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-08-28
End Time: 16:00




















In August, we will be discussing ‘The Age of Spiritual Machines’ by Ray Kurzweil. Published thirteen years ago, the book contains Kurzweil’s predictions about the possibilities presented by a future full of computers. It includes a list of predictions for 10, 20 and 30 years into the future.

Since the first year of predictions has passed (2009), this is a chance to discuss how accurate they turned out to be, and what we think of the chances of his other ideas coming true might be. Hey, we might even start making our own predictions.
This is a great opportunity to discuss the effect of the computer and internet on our lives, how futurologists make their predictions and how accurate they turn out to be.
Join us for tea, cake and skeptical geekery!

Facebook page for the event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158333644235131

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Girl Geek Tea Party

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Girl Geek Tea Party

Title: Girl Geek Tea Party -Geeky Show
Location: MadLab
Description: Manchester Girl Geeks is a not-for-profit group which organises networking events, talks and hands-on workshops for women and girls with an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-06-26
End Time: 16:30

Get your free ticket now at - http://mggtp15.eventbrite.com/

Do you have a passion for technology? What gadget could you not live without? What wonder of science do you think the world should know about? Come to the next Manchester Girl Geeks Tea Party and share your knowledge with girls (and guys) who want to know more. We’re having a Girl Geek “Show and Tell” and you’re invited to come along, learn something new and teach us about the things you find fascinating.

Science, Engineering or Technology – wherever your interest lies, you’re welcome to talk for up to ten minutes (or less if you’d rather) on a subject of your choice. If you don’t have anything to share then just come along for the technology, a cup of tea and some cake. Feel free to bring some homemade cakes if you want to share the love, too. There’ll be a relaxed atmosphere where you can share your thoughts and ideas with like minded ladies. If you’re new to technology and just want to learn more, then come to listen and meet some great people.

Tickets

This event is free and we will provide some tea & biscuits, but we would like to point out that our venue – MadLab – appreciates donations. Look out for the donation cat :)

What To Bring…

• A short talk or presentation

• A laptop could be useful with working wifi, we might have some web based show-and-tells

•Your favourite mug

•Your favourite biscuits, cupcakes, tea, coffee (we’ll have the basics, but in case you fancy something slightly more interesting… :)

•Your friends, sisters, mums, cousins, daughters, colleagues… who might be interested in doing some techy stuff. On the day the first 15 minutes will be set aside for tea, biscuits & booking your time slot. There’ll be a list of slots available when you arrive and we’ll allocate them on a first come first serve basis.

Get your free ticket now at – http://mggtp15.eventbrite.com/

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