Budding inventors from the area will be demonstrating their imaginative programming projects at Monmouth School for Boys’ Computer Science Fair in November.

Around 20 inventors, aged 10 and upwards from schools in the area, took the opportunity to showcase their coded apps, games, websites and even robots at the inaugural event 12 months ago.

Among the clever creations, seen by nearly 100 guests in 2016, were a Raspberry Pi-controlled railway, a motor racing game and a student-built 3D printer.

Berry Hill’s Tom Thornton and Ross-on-Wye’s Elic Wales, are active members of the WyeHack group and took part in in the school’s first science fair.

Mrs Lyndsay Hope, Head of Computing at Monmouth School for Boys, is looking forward to the second fair on Sunday, November 19th, from 2pm to 3.30pm.

Mrs Hope said: “Lots of students have been using half-term to programme a project, or build with hardware and software, ready to demonstrate.

“At the fair, which is free of charge, the children will be able to ask questions and get inspiration and ideas. Talking to some of the demonstrators may well spark them on their own road to invention.”

The fair is being preceded by a WyeHack meeting, which will give the inventors time to put the finishing touches to their projects.

These friendly and productive sessions, which are also free and open to all local children interested in coding, are held regularly at Monmouth School for Boys to give like-minded youngsters a chance to develop ideas together.

Mrs Hope added: “You can be incredibly creative with coding. The fair combines all the computer science side of things with art, STEM subjects and humanities too.”

For more details about the computer science fair or WyeHack, e-mail organiser Lyndsay Hope at: [email protected]