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Museum Volunteer Profile

Museum Volunteer Profile

Emma James, 24 years old. From Swindon. Occupation: Teacher

I started volunteering for the Museum in July 2010, I wanted to help the Museum to work closely with schools.

I run our Saturday Computer Club for children aged between 8 and 16. We've been doing lots with Lego recently in the Computer Club which has been great, the most exciting was building and programming Mindstorm robots.

In my spare time I enjoy reading books, playing computer games, watching good films and crafts like knitting and needlework.


Happy Birthday Mario!

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Dozens of Super Mario lovers celebrated on Saturday, 27th November at the Museum of Computing in Swindon the 25th birthday of this highjumping Italian plumber.

 



Children's Computer Club

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The Children's Computer Club has now been running for over a month and we've been focusing on games development using the software Scratch.

Check out our projects at: scratch.mit.edu/users/MuseumofComputing.

Over the next month we'll be exploring new and exciting skills such as how to make a flipbook from a video, photo editing and stop motion animation!.


A fun place to visit!

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Hats of our volunteers for getting it ready. The future of the Museum of computing is set firm. We recently held a party to celebrate our first anniversary at the new location in Theatre Square, Swindon which coincided with a very succesful fancy dress gaming day, drawing no end of attention and some incredible outfits.

The museum is increasing in popularity and we have a number of fun and family friendly events planned for the next few months. We are fortunate to have volunteers of all ages and interests working in the museum as we face the future with growing confidance.



Game review - Bayonetta

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Bayonetta is a fact action hack and slash adventure from the fantastic mind that brougth us the devil may cry series, bringing fast pace combat action with current generation graphic and over the top cutscenes.

After emerging from a 20 year slumber Bayoneta comes back to kick some angel butt to pay the bills and find the answer to some questions about her memoirs.


Making your way past the vast forces of paradiso is a lot of hard work, but you've got a lot of kung fu gun gameplay and additional abilities such as time control and powerful magic to make mincemeat of colossal angels.

Bayonetta is a pretty good game for the most part but most people will grow weary of playing through the game more than once to unlock some of the content and how far the difficulty can jump to but if you can get past these things then bayonetta will keep you entertained for long time.