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Code Club now has a group open on the National Stem Centre website! As well our regional Google Groups, our Stem Centre group allows fellow Code Clubbers to connect with each other all over the country. Code Club thrives on community.  Whether you are running a Code Club yourself, thinking of setting one up yourself …

That’s right. Tell everyone you know. Specifically we’re looking for programmers to volunteer to run clubs. Without volunteers there are no clubs, they are the life and soul of Code Club. So please print out this poster and put it up everywhere on every pin board, tree and free bit of wall. Especially near developers! …

Code Club meet up on Thursday 14th March 6.30pm – 9pm Are you interested in volunteering for Code Club? Or are you a teacher at a school who is looking for a Code Club volunteer? Then is this the meet up for you! We’ll kick off with a 10 minute introduction to Code Club from …

Steer is a new London-based education initiative, teaching fantastic web development and design courses – to adults! They’ve just launched with a great range of lessons, from designing and creating a site in HTML and CSS to teaching how to build and maintain the back-end of your site with Ruby on Rails. The team at …

It doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to run Code Club, in fact we pride ourselves on being very lean. But there are costs and we do need financial support. So imagine how pleased we were to hear from ARM. If you don’t know who ARM are then it’s easiest if I explain that …

We’re really pleased to announce our new patron His Royal Highness The Duke of York. We first met the Duke back in June 2012 when he was kind enough to be part of a video we made whilst we were there. Hopefully you’ve seen it but just incase you haven’t here it is again. The Duke …

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PI’s ARE NOW GONE! :) We’re really excited to announce that we are part of a joint project between Google and Raspberry Pi. In the next month Google will deliver over 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and divide them between five strategic partners and we are very excited to be one of those partners. We’ll …

A new wave of Code Clubs has started this term and we’ve been seeing a lot of volunteers have been blogging about their experiences in running their club. Here’s a list of links of blog posts for those who want to know what it’ll be like. Neil Smith at Bradwell Village School – Milton Keynes …

When a Code Club is formed we ask the volunteer to complete a short survey for us in the first session so we can find out a bit about the club. So far 150 Code Clubs responded, out of 393 registered clubs. That’s a 38% response rate, which is excellent for surveys. Those 150 clubs had …

The first Code Club hack day was over 8th and 9th December, and it was a resounding success. The brief was to design and build a project, using a Raspberry Pi, that schools could do in a Code Club session or two. It should use a Raspberry Pi computer and only other equipment that schools could expect …