1st August 2012
A slight change of plan
When we first started Code Club, though we had a strong sense of what we needed to achieve and how important it is to get kids into coding, we didn’t know the best way to set up an organistion to do it. We did what we thought was best and tried to register as a …
27th June 2012
Gladiators, you will go on my first whistle…
Today we’ve sent out instructions to all those who had signed up to be a volunteer to start a Code Club at their local primary school. Just incase you hadn’t signed up yet you can find all the instructions on the Volunteers page of our website. Good luck Code Clubbers! P.S Just incase you don’t …
27th June 2012
The making of THAT video
On the 21st June we headed to The Grove Hotel just outside Watford for Founders Forum. It’s an annual gathering of successful internet entrepreneurs who come together to learn from each other. There is a good write up of the event here on Wired. Founders Forum had invited us to come and challenge the delegates …
25th June 2012
User testing and pilot scheme update
On the 26th of May we headed to Camden to join Mozilla and CoderDojo at their play test event, kindly hosted by Forward Internet group. They lent us their schedule and their kids so we could test out the first six Code Club projects we had been working so hard on writing. This play test …
4th May 2012
And so it begins
Last night I had one of the most enjoyable meetings in my short(ish) life. Linda and I headed to Mozilla HQ (who had kindly lent us their big meeting room) to meet the the newest members of Team Code Club who we’d asked to help us write the curriculum for Code Club’s first term. Neil Smith …
22nd April 2012
One helluva week one
Wow! We launched Code Club on Monday lunchtime and to be honest we’re totally shocked at the reaction we’ve had. The response from the industry has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve had so many emails of support offering teaching experience, hack day venues, donations of all kinds and words of encouragement. Each one makes us smile. …
8th April 2012
The rumblings of change
The education of would-be coders rightly stirs a lot of passion within our industry. There are some great initiatives already underway. Here’s a run down of the some of the projects, campaigns and software and notable blog posts already out there. Coding for Kids Coding for Kids is an industry wide movement designed “…to support …
5th April 2012
The state of the digital nation
When I was at primary school in Yorkshire I programmed a mechanical turtle to move around the room but by the time I reached secondary school all I was being taught was Microsoft Office. It was so dull it turned me off computers for years. I’m not alone, I’ve had this depressing experience repeated back …
