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Rewired State formed a sister organisation, Young Rewired State, to bring young developers together to solve real world problems. Young Rewired State ran its own series of Festival of Code hack days from 2009. The last event run by Young Rewired State was the 2015 Festival of Code, and the
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organisation was formally dissolved in February 2019. Young Rewired State also ran various "Hyperlocal" centres across the UK, which provide coding challenges across the year, rather than being focused on one week as in the Festival of Code.
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where attendees across the UK took part in a competition to make an application including at least one piece of open government data. This event was initially called "Young Rewired State", but was renamed in 2012 to the
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National Hack the Government Day and other events ran annually until the last event in 2015. Between 2015 and 2016, Rewired State was run as a consultancy business by Emma Mulqueeny. The company was dissolved in 2018.
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In 2016, it was announced that year's Festival of Code would be postponed to 2017, but the event did not occur in 2017 or in subsequent years.
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for programmers and designers, focused on improving access to UK government open data and encouraging innovation in government services.
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Many developers who participated in Young Rewired State events learned coding skills outside the traditional school curriculum.
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offices in King's Cross, London. Over 80 people attended producing over 30 hacks. Judges at Rewired State events included
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In 2009, when the event first started, there were only 50 participants attending a weekend at
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Rewired State also ran a number of other government data hack days including
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Fox, Killian; Kappala-Ramsamy, Gemma; Sweeney, Kathy (31 March 2012).
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Between 2009 and 2015, Young Rewired State held a national five-day
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Attendees at the 2011 National Hack the Government Day
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Between 2011 and 2013, Rewired State ran a series of
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Young Rewired State

Emma Mulqueeny
hack days
Emma Mulqueeny
Guardian
Tom Watson MP
Dr Sue Black
Government Digital Service
mySociety
Nesta

UK Parliament
hackathon
Festival of Code
Google
"Rewired State: National Hack The Government Day"
"Rewired State - Who we Are"
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"Rewired State Projects"
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"National Hack the Government Day 2011"
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"Sign up for Parliament Hack 2013 with Rewired State"


"How do we scale? The future of Young Rewired State and the Festival of Code"
"Young Rewired State - Companies House"
"Young coders: ideas for change"
"One thousand children, one room and a lot of code - welcome to the future"

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