Due to a large overlap in our communities and in our funding sources, H4WM and NERD are joining forces for the new year. We are looking for 4-8 people to join the central organizing team which coordinates the event held in May or June each year. This is a fantastic way to develop your leadership skills with an experienced team, to learn more about tech needs and resources in the Valley, and to give back to your community. Your commitment level can be as large or as small as you want it to be. Come to find out more!

Learn more about this annual, local event that connects civic-minded tech professionals with nonprofits in need of elegant web and mobile solutions. How does Hack for Western Mass work? Who is involved? Who did we help? And what is the plan for next year. Learn the answers to all this, and how you can get involved.

Python is a widely used programming language that is easy to learn and very powerful.

In this workshop led by Jessica Grant, a bioinformatics researcher at Smith College, you will learn to create your own python programs. We will create a text-based game during the workshop.

This workshop is suitable for ages 12 and up. Space is limited for this workshop. Please register here.

Every computer program is written in one of many different programming languages. Just as spoken languages share grammar and parts of speech, programming languages have commonalities such as structure and control flow. Once one learns a single programming language, the others become easier to understand and learn!

JavaScript is an easy to learn and powerful scripting language. JavaScript runs the web, enabling the interactivity that makes the internet so powerful. Increasingly, JavaScript is used in many non-browser environments as well.

Come to this workshop, led by Aleda Jonquil and Peter King, and learn how you can use JavaScript to create an interactive webpage.

This workshop is suitable for ages 12 and up. Space is limited for this workshop. Please register here.

The web is built with HTML!

In this workshop you will learn how to structure webpages with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make them look nice with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

This workshop is suitable for ages 12 and up. Space is limited for this session. Please register here.