A huge thank you to everyone who were involved, helped out, supported and most of all to all the young women who came along and made it a fantastic day!

We even had Silicon Republic and CCTV (China News) doing a bit of coverage. Here's CCTV's feature of the event: http://english.cntv.cn/2015/10/11/VIDE1444545001184268.shtml

The awesome Ann O'Dea opened the event.

The lovely @AnnODeaSR and @NiambhScullion have inspired our audience now it's time to get #coding! #codergirlsrock pic.twitter.com/9alw3mOvNZ

— Girls Hack Ireland (@GirlsHackIE) October 10, 2015

Great quote, "every girl deserves to take part in creating technology..." #codergirlsrock pic.twitter.com/T4dFBi1zly

— Clea Zolotow (@CleaCoulter) October 10, 2015

And look at all the ambitions on @InspirefestHQ's Ambition wall!

A very full #inspirefest ambition wall. Thanks #codergirlhackday #codergirlsrock pic.twitter.com/gqUpxGa88D

— Inspirefest 2016 (@InspirefestHQ) October 10, 2015

There was a competition for a guardian and a child to attend Inspirefest 2016

And congrats to the winners:

Congratulations to Jacinta McFall who has just won (guardian & child) tickets to #inspirefest - Thanks for taking part in #CoderGirlHackDay

— Inspirefest 2016 (@InspirefestHQ) October 12, 2015

Looky, that's me with my ambition (it was hard to think of one, there's so many, but I picked the one that really meant something to me at the very moment in time)!

. @whykay starting off our ambition wall. #inspirefest . #codergirlhackday What's your ambition? pic.twitter.com/epzcX905vj

— Inspirefest 2016 (@InspirefestHQ) October 10, 2015

There were three awesome hack events running in parallel, Fungus Story-telling Workshop, Making music with SonicPi and Making a Lighthouse with TOG.

A lot going on here @Innovation_DCU the girls are here and ready to get #coding! #codergirlhackday #codergirlsrock pic.twitter.com/N6r3b2mwCO

— Girls Hack Ireland (@GirlsHackIE) October 10, 2015

@codergirlsrock great sonic pi session pic.twitter.com/AyYo89xHfh

— Edel Flynn (@EdelFlynn) October 10, 2015

Having lots of fun learning Fungus & @unity3d with @coderdojogirls @codinggrace #codergirlsrock pic.twitter.com/v7jgqupTXZ

— Fungus Games (@gofungus) October 10, 2015

Just lovely images taken by @Intel_IRL of the lighthouses the kids made at #codergirlsrock https://t.co/29bbMuHTRg pic.twitter.com/MPKZNVXGPL

— TOG (@TOG_Dublin) October 12, 2015

Here's a write-up from TOG of the day: http://www.tog.ie/2015/10/lighthouses-at-coder-girl-hack-day/

Python Workshop for Adults

Setting up the @CodingGrace workshop for #CoderGirlHackDay pic.twitter.com/gRTmBvF9V0

— Michael Twomey (@micktwomey) October 10, 2015

The adult Python workshop was postponed till after lunch and there was a few technical hitches with getting the borrowed laptops from Coder Dojo to be set up, by the time we were ready, I didn't realise I only had 50 minutes left to go through 2.5 hours content.

We covered the following:

• Basic command line
• Writing first Python code in the Python interpretor
• Writing first Python script
  • executing it in command line
  • call the function via Python interpretor
• Accepting input from the user and printing it out.

Since we ran out of time, I ran through what I could have covered if I had time, and a special script that was created by an attendee at the Python workshop at Inspirefest earlier this year with ascii art. See game_10_with_design.py.

For those who are curious, you can get the content by downloading "python-workshop.zip" from: https://bitbucket.org/codinggrace/python-project-workshop/downloads

If you are using a Windows machine, if you didn't say "Yes" during setup to set the environment variables for you, you will need to follow the instructions from this post.

Next Coding Grace Workshop

• Introduction to HTML/CSS supported by WITS Ireland @ NCI - Sat Oct 17
  • http://witsireland.com/events/?event_id=15

Upcoming female-friendly events

• GTFO Screening @ Science Gallery - Thu Oct 15th
  • https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/events
• PyLadies Dublin @ Tribal.vc - Tue Oct 20th
  • Short talk on "Bootstrapping your Career"
  • Bring your own laptop
  • http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesDublin/events/224536972/
• Ireland Girl Geek Dinner @ Science Gallery - Thu Oct 22nd
  • http://www.meetup.com/Ireland-Girl-Geek-Dinners/
• Women Who Code Dublin Launch @ Zendesk - Thu Nov 12th
  • http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Dublin/
• Rails Girls Dublin @ Zendesk - Sat Nov 21st
  • http://railsgirls.com/dublin3

Upcoming Python-related events

• Python Ireland meetups
  • Wed Oct 14 @ Bull&Castle
  • http://python.ie
• PyCon Ireland 2015
  • Sat Oct 24 - Sun Oct 25 @ Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, D8
  • x2 tracks talks / x2 tracks workshops
  • Student: EUR40 / Normal: EUR70
  • http://python.ie/pycon
• PyCon Ireland 2015 Sprints
  • Mon Oct 26 @ Radisson Blu Hotel, D8
  • FREE
  • http://python.ie/pycon

We trended on the day!

And if that is not enough, here's many of the tweets storified based on hash-tags, #codergirlsrock and #codergirlhackday, which the former trended for seven hours, how amazing is that!

Did you know that #codergirlsrock was Trending Topic on Saturday 10 for 7 hours in Ireland? http://t.co/VGqTrkDzkQ #trndnl

— Ireland Trends (@trendinaliaIE) October 11, 2015

Our final pic of the crazy and very fun day...

The end of a great day @coderdojogirls @CodingGrace @coolestprojects pic.twitter.com/cNR8031IXh

— Niambhs (@NiambhScullion) October 10, 2015