8th December 2012
#codeclubpihack -the brief
We’re having our first ever hackday today, here is the brief we are giving participants. BRIEF What are we making? The aim of this hack is create projects that 9-11 year old can make in Code Club. It’s the kind of project they will do in teams of 2/3 with one Raspberry Pi per team …
29th November 2012
#winning
On Wednesday 28th November @ClareSutcliffe went to the house of commons in her scary business clothes. Not because she was in trouble (for once) but because Code Club had been nominated to win an award. It was the Talk Talk Digital Heroes Awards and there was much needed funding up for grabs. We had already …
29th November 2012
Merry Christmas from Code Club
Merry Christmas Code Clubbers! We have a new project for you to finish the term with. It’s a Christmas project to get your Code Club in the festive spirit. It’s been written by the lovely Paul Finn and involves pressies, Santa Claus, reindeers and most importantly it needs coding by your kids! Download the Christmas Capers …
14th November 2012
Help our hack (please!)
We’re going to give 100 developers a Raspberry-Pi, 24 hours and electricity, wifi and food and ask them to each create a Code Club project that use a Raspberry-Pi. The aim of the game is to create something that a 9-11 year old could make themselves. We’ll write the projects up in child friendly language …
25th October 2012
Fun with squishy circuits
I recently saw this excellent TED video about how to teach the basics of electricity to children using electricity conducting playdough and letting them be circuit designers, and decided to try it out. The dough can be hooked up to all kinds of fun stuff including LEDs, motors, arduinos, MaKey MaKeys etc. Playdough can be …
19th September 2012
Our five month birthday
Five months ago on the 16th of April we launched Code Club with a single tweet. We thought we’d start small and have about 20 schools by the end of the year but the response we had to that tweet has been amazing. We had so many schools signing up to take part in our …
19th September 2012
Brighton Digital Festival and Scratch workshops
In September we took part in the Brighton Digital Festival at two different events. The first was Brighton Mini Maker Faire at the Brighton Dome. It was a fantastic event with loads of wicked robots and people having a go at making both digital and non-digital THINGS. We had a little stall and were swamped …
8th August 2012
We’re gonna need a bigger boat
Holy guacamole Batman! This is what we said to ourselves this morning when we realised we have 122 schools ready to start Code Club in September. That’s a lot. We have done our best to provide as much information as possible on our new website but we know that schools and volunteers will have questions …
1st August 2012
A slight change of plan
When we first started Code Club, though we had a strong sense of what we needed to achieve and how important it is to get kids into coding, we didn’t know the best way to set up an organistion to do it. We did what we thought was best and tried to register as a …
27th June 2012
Gladiators, you will go on my first whistle…
Today we’ve sent out instructions to all those who had signed up to be a volunteer to start a Code Club at their local primary school. Just incase you hadn’t signed up yet you can find all the instructions on the Volunteers page of our website. Good luck Code Clubbers! P.S Just incase you don’t …
