Workshop – Introduction to Python and Electronics

FACE-TO-FACE Workshop – Introduction to Python and Electronics

Date: Saturday, 14th November 2026
Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm
Venue: Clare Education Centre

Target Audience: Post-Primary Teachers

This one-day hands-on workshop will demonstrate problem solving and thinking skills that will help teachers support their students in building and making software and electronics projects using their own ideas and imagination. The workshop will give a taste of Python programming language which includes CircuitPython which is used to interact with electronics, and show how to read, write, test and modify hardware and software programs.

The workshop will introduce participants to circuits which includes breadboards, electronic components, and how they all work together. It also covers what is a Pico microcontroller, and how to write Python code for the Pico to work with electronics; this develops an understanding of how they interrelate, and how creativity and technology works together.

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