Share BASH Festival of Code

We need your help to share BASH Festival of Code and help us get the word out to more young people, and support from Mentors & Volunteers.

Images & Printables

Download our poster to put up in schools and community centres.
A low-ink version of our poster, which takes away a lot of the background colouring to save your printer.
A rectangle image for you to share on Facebook or Twitter. If you tweet, make sure to use #BASHFestival and tag us @BASHFestival.

Summary

"BASH Festival of Code is a free week-long coding festival for 13-17 year olds across the UK. We aim to provide an environment and community for technical young people to further build their skills and networks."

Sample Tweets

For attendee recruitment

Are you 13-17, know how to code and based in the UK? You should check out @BASHFestival - a free week-long coding festival in August and meet other young people like you! https://bashfestival.io #BASHFestival
The @BASHFestival weekend is going to have loads of workshops, talks and breakout activities. Spend the weekend with other young technical people, make new friends and build cool stuff! https://bashfestival.io #BASHFestival

For Mentor & Volunteer recruitment

Are you free at all between August 5-11? @BASHFestival are looking for mentors and volunteers to help run their free coding festival for young people. https://bashfestival.io/support #BASHFestival

Sample Email for Schools

Note: we've always found it best to try and get directly in touch with an ICT/Computing teacher or Head of Department. They generally have a better idea of the young people who'd most benefit from this event.

I thought some of your students might be interested in BASH Festival of Code. It's a free week-long coding festival for 13-17 year olds across the UK in August. On Monday-Friday young people are in one of 4 regional hubs around the UK and build projects together using their technical skills and supported by mentors.

At the weekend there's a finale in Birmingham where they'll showcase their projects and have a free multi-stream conference, as well as the opporutnity to talk with industry partners about their work and careers. There's an Access Scheme to help with the cost of travel to the weekend.

If you have any particularly engaged students who have some coding ability, please do share this with them and their parents. Tickets are free, but first come first served, so encourage them to sign up as this is a great opportunity!

Let me know if you have any questions!