It’s Mission to Mars (Reloaded) time! A couple of weeks ago, Software Cornwall ran two versions of the ‘Mission to Mars’ work experience courses.

Time flies and the first week of our Agile Huddle is already over. In previous years, we’ve created mock projects for teams to work through. However, this year we decided to change things up a bit and use the project to do some good for a local social enterprise.

A few weeks ago, four intrepid Bluefruit colleagues made their way to London to join the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference which is all about inspiring, celebrating and connecting women working in technology

This week I will be hanging out with the awesome Spaceport Cornwall team at their stand at Farnborough Airshow and today they are expected to make a very exciting announcement.

Let’s face it, not everyone is a football fan. Some of us aren’t even sure what shape the ball is. But it’s hard to ignore that the World Cup has now kicked off (…see what I did there?!), so here at Bluefruit we’ve been getting into the spirit with a staff sweepstake.

A few weeks ago, the community of Camborne (close to where our Bluefruit office is located) celebrated its rich history at the annual Trevithick Day. Richard Trevithick was a true pioneer of early engineering who set the foundations for local and international mining by inventing high-pressure steam engines.

The legendary Agile Huddle is back - offering a unique software development training opportunity! Are you a keen coder looking to gain more experience? Want a chance to put a real software project on your CV to progress your software development career? Bluefruit’s legendary agile huddle is taking a slightly new form this July, teaming up with local social enterprise start up The Rock Pool Project to create a proof of concept project.

Cornwall has always been a place of true engineering and exploring cutting-edge technology. Back in the prosperous days of mining, Cornwall was even known as a center of world-changing innovation! Tomorrow, the last Saturday in April, the community of Camborne is celebrating its rich history at the annual Trevithick Day.

One of our Bluefruit colleagues recently visited the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park which hosts the world’s largest collection of functional historic computers. The museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through to the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and beyond.

A Cornish Rover has landed on Mars today, April 1st, as part of an ongoing mission to send humans to the Red Planet by 2020. For decades, Bluefruit Software and Software Cornwall have worked in a secret alliance on a covert “Mission to Mars” project.