BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20251005T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20250406T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260425T101859Z UID:oRgFGw DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T133000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250815T175653 DESCRIPTION: Bitlink is on the road and coming to you! \n\n We are hosting FREE technology workshops at Launceston Library this October holidays for youth aged 9 - 16 years old.\nThese workshops are a part of our 2025 Bitl ink Bytes Regional Roadshow\, which will take the Bitlink team all across Tasmania!\nWe are running these FREE technology workshops with thanks to a recent STEM education grant and will set our sights on a different region al area in Tasmania\, for every coming school holiday period. \n\n The thi rd area we're visiting is Central Midlands and East Coast of Tasmania! \n\ n On Saturday October 4th we will be at:\nLaunceston Library\n(71 Civic Sq uare\, Launceston TAS 7250)\nfrom 9:30am - 1:30pm. \n\n We will be running the following sessions: \n\n Session 1: 9:30am - 11am\nMaze-craft (9 - 16 yr olds)\nLearn about how to make mazes fun and interesting!\nCreate your own ‘Escape-the-maze’ game on paper and then turn it into a video game in MakeCode Arcade. \n\n Session 2: 12pm - 1:30pm\nCode Breakers (9 - 16y r olds)\nLearn about data encryption and protecting ourselves from hackers !\nDecipher the codes and send encrypted messages with the BBC micro:bit. \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \nParents/guardians are welcome to stay for the sessions\, and it is recommended for\npersons under 9\, that a parental fi gure sits with them to help with reading and\ncomprehension. \n\n By purch asing a ticket to this session\, you are giving permission for your partic ipant to be supervised by Bitlink staff members. Participants arriving wit hout a ticket booking will need to provide a parent/guardian contact numbe r for the Bitlink team to phone and get verbal approval from before enteri ng the session. \n\n These sessions are also supported by Children's Unive rsity and so please bring along your passports and gain some additional ho urs and some special stickers for your passport! \n\n All sessions are des igned as introductory sessions. If your child has worked with technology b efore then we will mentor them on how they can go that little bit further and create something new. \n\n Parents/Guardians are welcome to sit in on these sessions. If you choose to do this\, please do not book a ticket for yourself (parents/guardians can attend without a ticket). \n\n These sess ions are popular and the tickets are free. We often exhaust our full ticke t allocation and have people on a waiting list. \n\n If you have booked a ticket and are no longer able to attend that session\, please email Troy a t troy@bitlink.com.au to let us know\, so that we can pass that ticket on to another attendee. \n\n This project received grant funding from the Aus tralian Government.\nThis project is also supported by Libraries Tasmania\ , the Tasmanian Government and Children's University. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T121702 LOCATION:71 Civic Square\, Launceston TAS 7250 ORGANIZER:mailto:troy@bitlink.com.au SUMMARY:Bitlink Bytes Regional Roadshow @ Launceston Library URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260425T101859Z UID:oRgFGw1088754 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T110000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250815T175655 DESCRIPTION:Learn about how to make mazes fun and interesting!\n\nCreate yo ur own ‘Escape-the-maze’ game on paper and then\nturn it into a video game in MakeCode Arcade. LAST-MODIFIED:20250927T145344 LOCATION:Launceston Library\, 71 Civic Square\, Launceston TAS 7250 ORGANIZER:mailto:troy@bitlink.com.au SUMMARY:[Bitlink Bytes Regional Roadshow @ Launceston Library] Maze-craft ( Sat Oct 4th 9:30am - 11am) URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn about how to make mazes fun and interest ing!\n\nCreate your own ‘Escape-the-maze’ game on paper and then\nturn it into a video game in MakeCode Arcade. URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260425T101859Z UID:oRgFGw1088755 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Hobart:20251004T133000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250815T175655 DESCRIPTION:Learn about data encryption and protecting ourselves from\nhack ers!\n\nDecipher the codes and send encrypted messages with the BBC\nmicro :bit. LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T171734 LOCATION:Launceston Library\, 71 Civic Square\, Launceston TAS 7250 ORGANIZER:mailto:troy@bitlink.com.au SUMMARY:[Bitlink Bytes Regional Roadshow @ Launceston Library] Code Breaker s (Sat Oct 4th\, 12pm - 1:30pm) URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn about data encryption and protecting our selves from\nhackers!\n\nDecipher the codes and send encrypted messages wi th the BBC\nmicro:bit. URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/bitlink/bitlink-bytes-regional-roadshow-launces ton-library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR