13th November 2013
Our robots are alive!
We’ve always wanted to make our robots (drawn by the fabulous Timothy Winchester) and now they’re alive and shakin’ their booties! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGtaIJTPbWU
13th November 2013
Samsung is Code Club’s new partner – Let’s do the Robo-Boogie to celebrate!
We’re super excited to announce that Samsung is going to be supporting Code Club throughout 2014 and hopefully beyond! We’re going to be working together on a series of activities designed to encourage and support more people to start and run Code Clubs in the UK. To celebrate we’ve designed a web app that helps …
4th November 2013
First club in the Channel Islands!
Twelve children at Amherst Primary School in Guernsey are taking part in a Code Club run by local digital agency Indulge Media. The development team at Indulge take it in turns to teach weekly coding classes which began in September at the start of the school year. Director Russell Isabelle said: “We decided to get involved …
8th October 2013
Business Stories: Morgan Stanley and dotMailer
Lots of schools and other venues want to have a Code Club but can’t find a volunteer. Behind the scenes Team Code Club are working very hard to recruit new volunteers and one of the ways we’re going about this is by speaking to businesses and getting them to give their employees time out of …
30th September 2013
Over The Air 2013
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, …
19th September 2013
Code Club at Campus Party London
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 …
29th August 2013
Volunteer Meet-ups: Hello, World!
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 …
28th August 2013
Testing our new Python projects
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 …
20th August 2013
Code Club Camp Brighton – A Diary
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 …
12th August 2013
Code Club at OHM 2013
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 …
