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This week was London Technology Week, and across the capital events have been taking place to celebrate the city’s rapidly growing technology sector and all the awesome stuff that’s happening with it. What we’ve been up to this week: On Tuesday we joined a lot of eager young coders, as well as their parents and teachers, at …

Last week, as part of Volunteers Week 2015, Code Club took part in a very special inter-generational Code Club session at Google’s Digital Garage in Leeds. We were joined there by students from a local Code Club at Little London Primary School, alongside members of AGE UK’s Silver Surfers programme, which aims to help those aged 55 get to grips with …

We have had a fantastic Volunteers Week 2015, with loads of great meet ups in London, Birmingham, Leicester, Aberdeen and Bristol. We also held our first inter-generational coding session at the Google Garage in Leeds, with members of Little London Primary’s Code Club and Age UK’s Silver Surfers. It was a great event highlighting the …

Robin Blackstone is one of our super-talented volunteers who runs a Star Club at Irchester Community Primary School in Northamptonshire. Star Clubs are outstanding Code Clubs with friendly volunteers and supportive teachers and venue representatives, which are open for new or prospective volunteers to visit as an example of best practice and all round awesomeness. …

Julia Harrison is a volunteer for Code Club’s teacher training arm, Code Club Pro. Code Club Pro asks experts to donate 8 hours per year of their time to share knowledge with teachers in their local areas. We asked Julia to explain a bit about her work with Code Club Pro, and helping teachers conquer the challenges …

Continuing our Volunteers Week blog series, we hear from Abbas Tutcuoglu, an Aeronautical Engineering student from Imperial University, who runs a Code Club in London. Abbas filled us in about what inspired him to get involved: Where I grew up in Germany, I experienced the uneven chances in education based on different financial backgrounds from a …

Adam Cohen Rose is one of Code Club’s longest serving volunteers. He is involved with running his own Code Club, as well as helping with teacher training through Code Club Pro. As part of our Volunteers Week blog series celebrating the work of our volunteers, we asked Adam to tell us a bit about his …

This week is Volunteers Week, and to celebrate, we want to highlight some of our amazing volunteers and recognise all the hard work they do as part of the Code Club community. Every day this week we’ll be profiling one of our volunteers, all of whom are involved in Code Club in different ways. We’ve also got …

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve been busily working away to improve Code Club’s existing HTML & CSS curriculum! One of the key developments is the use of Trinket, a coding environment which allows children to create web pages online. We hope that using Trinket will help to overcome some previous challenges facing children in …

We’re excited to welcome four new coordinators to our team who will be working to support our clubs and grow our community in the UK. Dan Powell will be stationed in the South East, Dan Elwick in London, Tim Wilson in the West Midlands and Phil Sharratt will be joining the South West. I’m Dan, …