27th October 2017
Working with Councils
Here at Code Club, we love to collaborate to create new clubs and opportunities so that even more young people have the chance to get involved in computing and digital making. In this blog post, Anna Pearson, Code Club Regional Coordinator for the North East, tell us how she has been working alongside Northumberland County …
18th October 2017
Getting with the programme: Code Clubs and the digital challenge in Brent Libraries
Sarah Smith, Libraries Development Manager at Brent Libraries, tells us what the organisation is doing to offer more Code Clubs for local young people, and how her Code Club Regional Coordinator has helped her organisation take steps forward. We launched our first Code Club in January 2016. It was a service we always wanted to …
5th October 2017
London ‘Back to school’ meetup
London’s Code Club Coordinator Mickey Day on the success of his first Code Club meetup, which brought inspiration for digital making education to almost 100 guests.
5th September 2017
Expanding the Code Club age range
Code Club is expanding to secondary school ages up to 13.
31st August 2017
Join Code Club at PyCon UK 2017
Find out what Code Club and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are offering for young people and adults at this year’s PyCon in Cardiff.
25th August 2017
Get groovy with Sonic Pi
Bring the magic of music to your Code Club with our six brand-new Sonic Pi projects.
4th July 2017
Six ways to start your Code Club session
by Katharine Childs, Code Club’s Regional Coordinator for the East Midlands One of the best parts of my job is visiting Code Clubs. I really enjoy seeing the different ways in which clubs structure their time, and I often get asked if there are any recommended ways to start a Code Club session – so …
26th June 2017
Scratch 2.0 on the Raspberry Pi
Exciting news! On Friday, Raspberry Pi announced the release of an update to the Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian, which includes an offline version of Scratch 2.0. We often get questions from Code Club leaders looking to use this latest version of Scratch offline on the Raspberry Pi, so this update will be welcome to …
13th June 2017
Getting to grips with digital making at Picademy
‘Picademy? What’s it all about?’ I hear you say. Liz, Code Club’s Regional Coordinator for the North West, tells us more… When I began volunteering with Code Club I had no idea what a Raspberry Pi is, and by the time I started working at Code Club I wasn’t that much wiser. So when the …
7th June 2017
#VolunteersWeek – Sharing skills with the next generation
It’s the final day of #VolunteersWeek, and we’ve been profiling the fantastic contributions of the people who help run Code Clubs across the UK. We spoke to James, a first-year student at Ulster University studying Computing Science. As a part of his role as a STEM Ambassador, James has been volunteering to run a Code …
