Farnell element14 Launches Wearable Technology Schools Competition

"M2 PressWIRE | Thursday, 10 December 2015 08:43

Farnell element14 has today launched a competition in partnership with Leeds Beckett University to encourage school children in Yorkshire to design a piece of wearable technology using the CodeBug.

CodeBug is a 12.50 nano-board designed to teach beginners the fundamentals of programming and electronics in a friendly non-intimidating way.

Ten schools will take part in the competition which is being managed by Leeds Ahead Partnership to encourage school children to embrace technology and coding. Leeds Beckett University students from the product design and electronic engineering courses will provide mentoring to the school pupils taking part. This will include support with realising design and streamlining concepts.

Steven Webb, Company Secretary at Premier Farnell, said: "We ran this competition last year with five schools in Leeds and this year we have made it bigger and..."

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