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Last weekend Linda and tef went to Bletchley Park, along with 600 designers, developers, and hackers for two days of talks, workshops and coding. Friday included Linda’s talk about Code Club, and a tour of the Computer History Museum, before everyone went off to build amazing things. Saturday included tef’s talk about social issues in programming, …

Earlier this month, Sam and I spent four days enthusing about Code Club at Campus Party London. Campus Party is a week long, 24 hour technology festival, with talks, workshops, and gaming. Along side Mozilla, Popup Talent and others, we had a stall in the Think Big/Make the web venue, where we taught people a …

We’re really excited to tell you that we’re teaming up with Postcode Anywhere to hold a bunch of meet-ups around the UK to say thank you to our current volunteers and meet new ones. One of the trickiest things about running Code Club at the moment is that so many schools and other venues want to have …

For our fourth term of projects we’re teaching children Python, so over the last few weeks we’ve held some very exciting Python testing events with an expert group of kids from all over the South East. The kids amazed us with their interest and ability to highlight what did and didn’t work. Most of all …

In early August, Code Club ran a week of coding and hacking with the wonderful guys at Exploring Senses. 20 lucky children from Brighton took part in a week of learning to code using Scratch, Makey Makey boards and Raspberry Pis. Then they ran around dressed as robots and hacking toys together in the afternoon! It …

What happens when 2,500 people turn up in a field to talk to each other about technology? Lasers, Smoke Machines, Art, Music, Craft, and of course, Hacking. Did I mention the Lasers? (Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/russss/9423727900/) OHM2013 is the latest in the long line of Dutch Hacking Festivals, running every four years since 1997. Each year it’s …

Lots of schools and other venues want to have a Code Club but sometimes they struggle to find volunteers to help them out. In order to help venues find the volunteers they need, Code Club are beginning to build local partnerships between businesses, universities and venues. Our first local partnership, between The London Borough of …

We’ve been hinting at it for a while and it’s finally here. Code Club World has landed! The mission of Code Club World is to give every child in the world the chance to learn to code by providing project materials and a volunteering framework that supports after-school coding clubs. Code Club UK projects have …

Today we are launching an exciting video project for our volunteers to participate in! We want you to submit a short video (1 or 2 minutes would be great) telling us all about your experiences as a Code Club volunteer so far. We hope that by you telling the world about the awesome things you …

We’re really excited to announce that Code Club can be run anywhere in the UK! We got a whole bunch of emails from people who can’t take time out of work because they are too busy or their bosses are too grumpy. So we’ve been chatting with the lawyer and we’ve worked out a way …