Code Club

Code Club
Founded 2012 (2012)
Founder
  • Clare Sutcliffe
  • Linda Sandvik
Location
Area served
United Kingdom
Slogan Inspire kids to learn to code
Website codeclub.org.uk

Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012, which aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 11 to developing coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues had established a Code Club, regularly attended by an estimated 44,000 young people across the United Kingdom.[1] The organisation has also expanded internationally, and there are now over 6,000 Code Club operating worldwide.[2] Volunteer programmers and software developers give their time to run Code Club sessions, passing on their programming skills and mentoring the young students.[3][4] Children create their own computer games, animations and websites, learning how to use technology creatively.[5]

History

Code Club is the brain child of Clare Sutcliffe MBE[6] and Linda Sandvik,[7][8]

we share a belief that it is essential that children are introduced to coding at an early age and shown how much fun it can be.[9]

A viral video featuring Prince Andrew, Martha Lane Fox, Chad Hurley, Niklas Zennström, Brent Hoberman and Tim Berners-Lee was released to promote awareness of the project.[10]

On the 3rd of November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation."[11]

Technologies

The curriculum teaches children Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python.

References

  1. "Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  2. "Code Club World – A worldwide network of coding clubs for children". www.codeclubworld.org. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  3. Robert Bisland (2013). "A day in the life of a Code Club volunteer". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere).
  4. Angela Davis (2013). "The region’s techies help to influence a ‘program’ for change in the classroom". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere).
  5. Guy Mucklow (2013). "Kindergarten Code". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere).
  6. The Guardian. "New Year honours 2016: the full list". The Guardian. The Quardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  7. "The Founders Forum continues to generate innovative discussion". Wired. Conde Nast. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  8. "Afterschool 'Code Clubs' planned to teach kids programming". Wired. Conde Nast. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  9. "Code Club About". Code Club. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  10. "Code and a have a go if you think you're good enough". Daily Mirror (Trinity Mirror). Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  11. "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved 2016-04-20.

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