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Coolest Projects online is just around the corner and there’s still time for your Code Club members to go on an adventure with code and share their COOL ideas with the world!  We want to make sure you have all the support you need to help your coders make their ideas a reality! To help, …

Meet Kayla! A young coder and our roving reporter for International Women’s Day!  During Kayla’s half term, she ‘Zoomed’ around the world meeting the women of Code Club to learn more about the programme and the #RealRoleModels who have inspired them.  From Manchester to Sydney I loved attending Code Club, it allowed me to be …

Coolest Projects ignites curiosity and creativity amongst young coders from across the globe.  In 2020, coding superstar Bhakti (13) from Pune, India, entered Coolest Projects. She shares with us her first-hand experience of creating her Scratch game ‘Save Animals’. Gaining real-life skills Bhakti (13), lives in Pune, India and regularly attends her school’s Code Club …

Astro Pi Mission Zero gives young people the opportunity to blast their program into space and send a message to the astronauts on board the International Space Station.  With many of you supporting young people to learn to code from home, Ruth from The Mount School Code Club in York shares some tried-and-tested tips for …

Coolest Projects 2021 idea registration is officially open! The online showcase brings together a global community of young digital makers to showcase their tech creations with the world.  Josh, our Global Community Coordinator, celebrates how two international partners ran online Coolest Projects events in 2020, to help inspire your Code Clubs to enter their COOL …

While the UK and other countries are facing school closures and other restrictions, we wanted to share some thoughts and inspiration to help your Code Club, school, and family code from home. What support is available?  If you can move your Code Club sessions online, we have lots of support and guidance to help you …

Over the past nine months, Code Club and CoderDojo have teamed up to run a series of community calls. In this blog Kat shares some of her favourite sessions, and gives a sneak peak of our new series of online workshops. In March 2020, we took to the internet in search of a way to …

We asked educators, volunteers, young coders, and the Code Club team across the world to share their #MyCodeClub moments from 2020, to mark the incredible work that has taken place during this unprecedented year.  Loving their coding lesson St Patrick’s Primary School based in Troon, Scotland shared their #MyCodeClub moment on Twitter: Fifty children coding …

The team at Code Club India are always working on new ways to make coding accessible and relevant for students and educators in India.  Vasu shares how Code Club is helping to enrich the New Education Policy with their new ‘Learn coding through science’ resource, which was designed to support cross-curricular links for educators and …

This year, we asked the Code Club community to take part in two polls to help the team understand how the coronavirus pandemic was impacting clubs around the world.    Dave Hazeldean, Code Club’s Data Analyst, shares why answering the polls was so important, how they gave us a better picture of how clubs were running, …