News and updates
Posts from our blog and mentions of Prewired in the media, providing an overview of our evolution over the years.
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2026
Prewired teams shine at the 2026 FIRST LEGO League
12/02/2026 · Prewired participated once again in the Edinburgh competition of the FIRST LEGO League, with two teams!
2025
Hypercube supports the 2025 Prewired Summer Make-a-Thon
22/07/2025 · Our third annual Make-a-Thon was sponsored again by Hypercube! Read all about the event in their blog post.
2024
Prewired × Hypercube Summer Make-a-Thon 2024
07/08/2024 · At the end of July, we hosted our second annual Summer Make-A-Thon, this time sponsored by Hypercube consulting.
2023
Looking back at the Prewired Summer Make-a-Thon
09/10/2023 · For the first time since the pandemic, Prewired hosted a Summer Make-A-Thon, sponsored by Kin + Carta. Read more in India's blog post!
2022
Mapping informal cyber security initiatives for young people aged 5-19
21/07/2022 · See Prewired discussed in government 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 is teaming up with the Tinderbox Collective to launch The Emporium of Digital Delights, our new online summer hackathon series.
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
Prewired's Freda O'Byrne nominated as Diversity in Tech Champion at the first Scottish Tech Startup Awards
06/11/2018 · We're proud to share that Freda O'Byrne was nominated as Diversity in Tech Champion for her work at Prewired. Read more about the awards in this article from Insider!
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
Scott Logic staff mentor at the Prewired Summer Hack
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 coding challenge for children and young adults from 8 to 19 years of age.
Summer Hack 2016 Highlights
20/08/2016 · Watch this video by Product Forge for the highlights of the first Prewired Summer Hack!
Hey teacher, leave them kids alone. Why children are better off left to learn coding by themselves
28/04/2016 · This guest essay by Freda O'Byrne, co-founder of Prewired, 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.
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.