Year 7 students visited the Apple store in Newcastle to do two workshops as part of a field trip. The students used iPads in the workshops and got the chance to use Tynker and Sphero. Tynker is a free app that allows children to learn how to code. Students used visual blocks and saw how they could progress to text-based coding if they revisited the app after the workshop. Sphero is a robot that the children were able to program. They calibrated the Sphero first and were able to control the Sphero around the store, have races, change the colour and even make them jump! All students had a great time and got a free memory stick. Apple are also going to send them a t-shirt as they were out of stock at the time we visited the store.