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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 …

We’re having our first ever hackday today, here is the brief we are giving participants. BRIEF What are we making? The aim of this hack is create projects that 9-11 year old can make in Code Club. It’s the kind of project they will do in teams of 2/3 with one Raspberry Pi per team …

On Wednesday 28th November @ClareSutcliffe went to the house of commons in her scary business clothes. Not because she was in trouble (for once) but because Code Club had been nominated to win an award. It was the Talk Talk Digital Heroes Awards and there was much needed funding up for grabs. We had already …

Merry Christmas Code Clubbers! We have a new project for you to finish the term with. It’s a Christmas project to get your Code Club in the festive spirit. It’s been written by the lovely Paul Finn and involves pressies, Santa Claus, reindeers and most importantly it needs coding by your kids! Download the Christmas Capers …