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Is your Code Club taking a break over the summer? Are you looking for some extra coding activities for your children to participate in while they are not at school? Read on to find out how you and the young people of Code Club can keep coding throughout the summer months. Coding events There are …

Every week at Code Club, thousands of children as young as eight are learning how to code. Many of these children are using their newfound knowledge to make things that are smart, creative, funny, and also useful in their wider community. Coolest Projects is an annual showcase of the work that young digital makers are …

Sometimes working for Code Club can take you to unexpected places. For Liz Smart, Regional Coordinator for the North West, an encounter with a Business Connector in Lancashire led to her setting up a Code Club with HMP Kirkham. Here Liz tells us about how Code Club is working to establish family ties between dads …

After becoming a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator at Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free face-to-face teacher training initiative, Kyle Wilke was inspired to start a Code Club to give students at his school and teachers in California more access to coding and making. After attending Picademy, I was inspired to start a Code Club of …

At Code Club it’s our mission to get as many young people interested in coding as possible. Here Dan Powell, Programme Manager at Code Club, talks about his experience with inspiring girls (including his daughters) to get coding. When I was 12, my parents bought me a Sinclair ZX81, and ever since then I’ve been …

When starting your own Code Club, it is useful to remember that there are literally thousands of people who have gone through the process before you. Here, Code Club volunteer Darren explains how he went from Raspberry Pi tinkerer to Code Club leader. Darren started by supporting a modest club of eight kids, and now …

Back in 2015, a school email about Code Club led to Mart becoming a volunteer. With three volunteers and a classroom of kids who wanted to get coding, Mart tells us how their Code Club was born. Our Code Club runs in the eastern suburbs of Victoria, Australia, with numbers that have varied from 30 …

This week we speak to Jenny Riley, who shares her experience of setting up and getting started with Code Club. Read on to learn how Jenny has structured her first few sessions, and about the impact Code Club is having on the children involved. Starting a new Code Club In December last year, I approached …

Rachel Ivory, an inspiring student from Durham Johnston School, has been using Code Club projects and resources to introduce her younger peers to the wonders of computer science.

Last month we set a challenge for our active UK Code Clubs: Create a digital collage of your favourite things using Scratch or HTML.