News and updates
This page aggregates updates from our own blog with mentions of Prewired in the media, to provide a historical overview of how Prewired has evolved over the years.
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2025
Hypercube | AI for Energy Hypercube supports prewired event 2025
22/07/2025 · Hypercube backed the 2025 Prewired event, where young coders built tech solutions for a sustainable future. See the top projects and winners.
2024
Prewired X Hypercube Summer Make-a-Thon
07/08/2024 · Prewired X Hypercube Summer Make-a-Thon At the end of last month (July), Prewired hosted our second annual Summer Make-A-Thon sponsored by Hypercube consulting. Like last year, this 2-day event …
2023
Summer Tech Make-A-Thon
09/10/2023 · Over the last weekend in July, Prewired hosted our annual Summer Make-A-Thon sponsored by Kin + Carta to 20 young tech enthusiasts (aged between 11–16).
2022
Mapping informal cyber security initiatives for young people aged 5-19
21/07/2022 · This research aimed to provide a first mapping of informal cyber security-related initiatives aimed at children and young people aged 5-19.
2021
Prewired++ presents the Emporium of Digital Delights!
04/05/2021 · Prewired++ presents the Emporium of Digital Delights! We’re delighted to be supporting Prewired++ with their summer hackathon series, The Emporium of Digital Delights! If you are interested i…
DIGIT Prewired Receives Funding to Bring Coding Club Online
20/01/2021 · Youth programming club Prewired has secured funding from Creative Informatics to help the long-running Edinburgh group move online.
2020
Launching Prewired Online
02/04/2020 · All of us on the Prewired team were really sad about having to close down our regular Wednesday evening sessions in the face of the Covid-19 emergency. But we started thinking about making the most of the internet and ...
2019
Summer Hack 2019 Report
26/07/2019 · We had an awesomely good Summer Hack 2019! It took place on July 22nd-26th 2019 at CodeBase.
2018
businessInsider First Scottish Tech Startup Awards finalists announced
06/11/2018 · The inaugural awards - launched by the team behind Turing Fest - aims to recognise the people and companies leading the way in building the country's digital economy
Daily Business Scottish tech startups in battle for honours – Daily Business
06/11/2018 · The shortlist has been announced for the first Scottish Tech Startup Awards organised by the backers of the Turing Fest.
Summer Hack 2018 Blog & Projects
30/08/2018 · Last week saw the return of Prewired's Summer Hack to CodeBase Edinburgh!
Programming a micro:bit at the Eagle Lab
21/03/2018 · We programmed a micro:bit to say what we want, I made mine say **3* KISSY FACE!!!**
2017
Summer Hack 2017 Projects
21/08/2017 · Summer Hack 2017 took place on August 7th-11th 2017 at CodeBase Edinburgh, and five teams created projects during the week.
2016
Building the next generation of technology professionals
22/08/2016 · Last week, five Scott Logic staff took time out of the Edinburgh office to lend a hand with the Prewired Summer Hack for young people aged eight to 19.
Summer Hack 2016 Highlights
20/08/2016 · Watch this video by Product Forge for the highlights of the first Prewired Summer Hack!
FutureScot Hey teacher, leave them kids alone. Why children are better off left to learn coding by themselves | FutureScot
18/04/2016 · The co-founder of a volunteer-staffed programming club explains why they take a different approach to the curriculum.
2015
Young Rewired State Festival of Code, Edinburgh 2015
10/08/2015 · Hi, my name is Cerys and I regularly go to Prewired on a Wednesday. Last weekend was the Young Rewired State (YRS) coding competition. Prewired had teams entered, each one developing a project that included open source data. My team consisted of Robert P, Robert C, Lukah and Me.
Prewired at CodeBase: The Festival of Code 2015
27/07/2015 · There has been great excitement at Prewired over the last few weeks as we have prepared to take part in The Festival of Code 2015, the world’s largest hackathon for young people.
Third Force News Chief encounters: it’s not all play and no work for Freda O’Byrne - TFN
25/06/2015 · It's not all play and no work for the chair of Playbase Training