Welcome to the Code Club Blog

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 …

We’re going to give 100 developers a Raspberry-Pi, 24 hours and electricity, wifi and food and ask them to each create a Code Club project that use a Raspberry-Pi. The aim of the game is to create something that a 9-11 year old could make themselves. We’ll write the projects up in child friendly language …

I recently saw this excellent TED video about how to teach the basics of electricity to children using electricity conducting playdough and letting them be circuit designers, and decided to try it out. The dough can be hooked up to all kinds of fun stuff including LEDs, motors, arduinos, MaKey MaKeys etc. Playdough can be …

Five months ago on the 16th of April we launched Code Club with a single tweet. We thought we’d start small and have about 20 schools by the end of the year but the response we had to that tweet has been amazing. We had so many schools signing up to take part in our …

In September we took part in the Brighton Digital Festival at two different events. The first was Brighton Mini Maker Faire at the Brighton Dome. It was a fantastic event with loads of wicked robots and people having a go at making both digital and non-digital THINGS. We had a little stall and were swamped …

Holy guacamole Batman! This is what we said to ourselves this morning when we realised we have 122 schools ready to start Code Club in September. That’s a lot. We have done our best to provide as much information as possible on our new website but we know that schools and volunteers will have questions …