{"id":953525,"date":"2021-11-25T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=953525"},"modified":"2021-11-25T05:54:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:54:44","slug":"celebrating-the-community-cian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=953525","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the community: Cian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we bring you the sixth film in our series of inspirational community stories<\/a>. It\u2019s wonderful to share how people all across the world are getting creative with tech and solving problems that matter to them.<\/p>\n

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Our next community story comes from Drogheda, Ireland, where a group of programmers set up the second ever CoderDojo<\/a> coding club for young people. One of that Dojo\u2019s attendees was Cian Martin Bohan, whose story we\u2019re sharing today.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t create anything I want in real life, but I can create anything I want on a computer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cian Martin Bohan<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch Cian\u2019s video to find out how this keen programmer went from his first experience with coding at his local CoderDojo as an 11-year-old, to landing a Software Engineering apprenticeship at Google.<\/p>\n

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Cian at his very first CoderDojo session<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Meet Cian<\/h2>\n

Cian (20) vividly remembers the first time he heard about CoderDojo as a shy 11-year-old: he initially told his dad he felt too nervous to attend. What Cian couldn\u2019t have known back then was that attending CoderDojo would set him on an exciting journey of creative digital making and finding life-long friends.<\/p>\n

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Help us celebrate Cian by liking and sharing his story on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right from the beginning, the CoderDojo gave Cian space to make friends and develop his coding skills and his curiosity about creating things with technology. He started to attend the Dojo regularly, and before long he had created his own website about the planets in our solar system with basic CSS and HTML.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI made a website that talked about the planets, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. In fact, I actually still have that website.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cian Martin Bohan<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In over 6 years of being part of his CoderDojo community, Cian was able to share his passion for programming with others and grow his confidence.<\/p>\n

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