This year we are going to be running a slightly different event that is essentially a hack week for young developers across the country to go and build visualisations, digital and/or non-digital products using government data, alongside working devs in businesses across the UK. These would be presented back to government at the end of the week, either in person, or by live stream from wherever you are based.

It is open to anyone aged 15 to 18 (although certain businesses may not be able to take the under-16s) who can work with data, coding or design.

We do not want this to be London-centric like last time, so are calling for businesses or organisations across the UK to join in. If you are ‘developer friendly’ and have space in your offices for a number of Young Rewired Staters - say anything between 2 to 7 - please sign up. We will have people signing up through our site here but you can also recruit in your local area, and drum up some local sponsorship if you like! Please email emma@rewiredstate.org if you would like to put your hand up - yes government departments and organisations can put their hands up too!

If you are a young developer and want to join in, then sign up here http://events.osmosoft.com/recipes/yrs/tiddlers.wiki

We also plan to have some roaming experts who will visit the centres <- that’s our new name for the organisations playing host, as will we: the Rewired State team.

The big show and tell at the end of the week will also involve prizes and pizza as is the tradition.

What we need now:

1. Businesses and organisations to volunteer to host some YRSers for a week, with light dev support
2. People aged 15 to 18 to register their interest
3. As ever, sponsorship will be needed for the big presentation at the end and for travel for the experts whizzing about the country

This is just the beginning of what will be a very busy few months getting this pulled off, any volunteers for just generally helping very gratefully received!

we need to make sure that everyone is safe, therefore we need every business to be CRB checked, this costs a few quid but does not take long

Do contact me: Emma Mulqueeny emma@rewiredstate.org or 07711355023 if you want to ask or give anything