Code Club
After-school programming clubs for children
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- Clare Sutcliffe
- Linda Sandvik | location = United Kingdom | origins = | area_served = United Kingdom | focus = | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | subsib = | owner = | homepage = Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues established a Code Club, regularly attended by an estimated 44,000 young people across the UK. The organization also expanded internationally, and there are now over 13,000 Code Club operating worldwide. Volunteer programmers and software developers give their time to run Code Club sessions, passing on their programming skills and mentoring the young students. Children create their own computer games, animations and websites, learning how to use technology creatively.
It has Scratch, HTML & CSS, Python and a variety of other coding languages. The initiative also provide free BBC Micro:bits to children above the age of 9.
History
Code Club is the brain child of Clare Sutcliffe and Linda Sandvik, 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.
On 3 November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation." On 16 March 2018, Clare Sutcliffe, then executive director at Raspberry Pi, announced leaving both Code Club and Raspberry Pi.
Technologies
The curriculum teaches children Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python. Students and teachers use the Trinket web browser application to write code.
References
References
- "Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club (Wired UK)".
- "Code Club World – A worldwide network of coding clubs for children".
- Robert Bisland. (2013). "A day in the life of a Code Club volunteer". Postcode Anywhere.
- Angela Davis. (2013). "The region's techies help to influence a 'program' for change in the classroom". Postcode Anywhere.
- Guy Mucklow. (2013). "Kindergarten Code". Postcode Anywhere.
- (30 December 2015). "New Year honours 2016: the full list". The Quardian.
- "The Founders Forum continues to generate innovative discussion". Conde Nast.
- "Afterschool 'Code Clubs' planned to teach kids programming". Conde Nast.
- "Code Club About". Code Club.
- "Code and a have a go if you think you're good enough". Trinity Mirror.
- (3 November 2015). "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi".
- Cellan-Jones, Rory. (2019-06-24). "The Raspberry Pi goes Fourth".
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