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Webinars & make-alongs

If you’re brand new to Coolest Projects, need some inspiration, or just want to have fun making, our webinars are for you. We’re running a hands-on session for each category to give you great tips, tricks and ideas!

How to enter Coolest Projects online

Find out how to enter your project to the Coolest Projects online showcase with this step-by-step guide.

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Use a group code to enter Coolest Projects online

Mentors, teachers, Code Club leaders can now use a group code to enter young people's projects to the Coolest Projects online showcase. Find out how in this detailed guide.

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Advanced programming: taking your project to the next level

Available to watch now.

If you're a confident coder and maker looking to level up your projects, this session is for you! Diane shares great ideas and tips for building an advanced project all about space exploration.

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Create your own games

Available to watch now.

Join for this online session focused on making your own cool games! Mac will take you through step-by-step guidance to code and customise your own fun game, ready to submit to Coolest Projects. Suitable for all levels.

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Making Mobile apps with MIT App Inventor

Available to watch now.

David from MIT App Inventor will share project ideas and tips in this interactive session, with everything you need to get started with making your own mobile app! Suitable for all levels.

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Making a screen recording using a Windows computer

Available to watch now.

A short video to show you how you can use the Snipping tool in Windows to record some or all of your screen in order to document your project for entering into Coolest Projects.

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Make a screen recording using a Mac computer

Available to watch now.

A short video to show you how you can use the Snipping tool in Windows to record some or all of your screen in order to document your project for entering into Coolest Projects.

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How to use a model from Teachable Machine in your Scratch project

Available to watch now.

A video showing how you can use models trained in Teachable Machine in your Scratch Projects

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Teachable machine in action

Available to watch now.

A Teachable Machine classifier identifying green apples and red tomatoes, then mistaking a red apple for a tomato. This demonstrates the limitations of a biased or narrow training dataset, highlighting how the model has learned to associate colour with the object category rather than its shape or texture.

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How to crop video in Teachable Machine

Available to watch now.

A short video demonstrating how to crop your video input in teachable machine.

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