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This week we received confirmation of the delivery date for Code Club’s assignment of BBC micro:bits, so it is with much excitement that we can now announce that active Code Clubs will be able to apply for their micro:bits from 12pm, 17th August 2016! We want to make sure that every active club who wants micro:bits …

What better way to celebrate the beautiful game than with coding! So, to mark the UEFA European Championship, Code Club have created a new Scratch project – ‘Beat the Goalie’. In the project children will learn how to code a football to move backwards and forwards across the bottom of the screen. The ball will …

Viv Richards is one of our volunteers who plays an active role in the tech community where he lives in Wales. He shared his experiences of running a Code Club, and the benefits it brings him, his family and local community.

Gary Clark and Ian Rodwell are two volunteers from the Royal Bank of Scotland who have been running a Code Club in the RBS Gogarburn offices near Edinburgh for the past three months. We spoke to them about their experiences volunteering to help local children learn about coding & digital making. They were inspired to …

Robert Bilsland has been volunteering with Code Club since the very start, and his enthusiasm and passion never fails to amaze us. He told us a bit more about his volunteering experience… For me being a Code Club volunteer is such a rewarding opportunity. Each week being able to share my enthusiasm for computers and …

It can be a challenge to fit volunteering in when working full time. However, we know that many volunteers who run Code Clubs – either on their own or as part of a group – not only feel able to balance it with their work but also see benefits from it too. We spoke to …

In March this year AlphaGo (an Artificial Intelligence computer designed by Google DeepMind) started a 5 match test against one of the world’s best Go players, Lee Se Dal, to win a prize of $1million. Go is a very complex game to play  – there are more possible position combinations than there are atoms in …

Today is the start of Volunteers’ Week, a time to celebrate the amazing achievements and contributions of volunteers across the UK who are working to help their local communities. So of course we also want to take this opportunity to celebrate the work of Code Club’s volunteers – the teachers, students, parents, librarians, community workers, …

We think all our Code Club volunteers are amazing for giving their time to help children learn to code. We noticed that some volunteers in our community have been doing lots of things to support us, in addition to volunteering at a club. For example, they had been spreading the word about Code Club at …

Code Club’s amazing Regional Coordinators are our eyes and ears on the ground across the country, attending events and supporting our volunteers and partners on a local level. We’re really pleased to welcome three new members to the team – Victoria who will be covering the North East, Yorkshire and Humber; Mark who will be …