{"id":949,"date":"2015-10-21T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=949"},"modified":"2015-10-21T19:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:03:02","slug":"all-in-the-name-of-lovelace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2015\/10\/21\/all-in-the-name-of-lovelace\/","title":{"rendered":"all in the name of Lovelace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture taken by me. Copyright on LEGO Ada belongs to Stewart Cromar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ada Lovelace Day at University of Edinburgh<\/a> was a great success this year. The LTW, USD and L&UC teams outdid themselves. We had a lifesize Lego Ada in the Main Library, and the complete Ada and Baggage Lego set in Hugh Robson Building.\u00a0 We taught students and colleagues how to code music, edit wikipedia<\/a>, build lego rasperry-pi cases, add metadata<\/a>, colour-in and celebrate women in tech, all in the name of Lovelace.<\/p>\n

Votes for Lego Women
\n<\/strong>Stewart Cromar’s on going campaign to get his Ada lego set<\/a> on to the shelves of stores worldwide was embraced by #adalovelaceday enthusiasts.\u00a0 LEGO Ada has now passed the 4.5K vote mark and is currently the #1 project on the Ideas homepage.<\/p>\n

Open educational resources
\n<\/strong>In celebration of Ada and just because it’s a good thing to do we released several open educational resources for you to enjoy. These include the instructions for our workshops, how to make your own raspberry pi case and a super on-trend grown-up colouring in sheet designed by Jackie Aim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Picture taken by me. Copyright on LEGO Ada belongs to Stewart Cromar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Social Media Reaction<\/strong>
\nOur Ada Lovelace Day website took over a 1K page views in the week, with the OER content being particularly popular. In addition to the many tweets from participants using the #ALD15eduni<\/a> hashtag we had several official Tweets and RTs from both Raspberry Pi and Sonic Pi and messages of support from similar events at other universities.<\/p>\n

On Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stewart and I will both be giving papers in Oxford in December as part of the Ada Lovelace bicentennial celebrations<\/a> hosted by the Bodleian and Somerville College.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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