In February of 2018, a new Code Club was set up at Bosomtwe International School in Ghana. Code Club volunteer Clement Cheah tells us how he came to travel from his home in Switzerland to West Africa to help them get started. In 2009 I learned about a school in the heart of rural Ghana. […]
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Across the UK, Code Club Regional Coordinators work closely with colleges, universities and other higher education institutions to get students started as Code Club volunteers. Our East Midlands Regional Coordinator, Katharine Childs, tells us about working with De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester to get local Code Clubs up and running. I’ve been cooperating with […]
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At the end of February, the Code Club at Abbey Community Primary in Leicester had some visitors: a camera crew from the BBC that filmed them as part of a piece for BBC East Midlands. Here, Steve Gale, the volunteer at the club and one of our Code Club Champions, talks about the experience. So […]
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With a tear in our eyes, we bring you this message from Code Club co-founder Clare Sutcliffe. After six incredible years at Code Club and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’ve made the difficult but exciting decision to search out new adventures and challenges. When I co-founded Code Club back in April 2012, I had no […]
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Scratch, a free drag-and-drop programming language, is the perfect place to start out if you are new to coding. But, just because it is accessible for beginners, doesn’t mean that you can only create simple programmes. In this blog post, Interim Head of Content and Curriculum and Code Club leader Rik Cross explains how to […]
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Are you looking for a different kind of project to get stuck in to with your Code Club? You are? Then we have just the thing! We’ve created a set of new Blender projects to introduce your club members to the world of 3D design. What is Blender? Blender is a free software programme which […]
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