At Code Club we are lucky to have some volunteers who keep running Code Clubs year after year. These people are the real experts on how to run a club, and they have a wealth of advice to help newcomers get started. One such volunteer is Richard Hind, who has been running his Code Club […]
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Back in 2015, a school email about Code Club led to Mart becoming a volunteer. With three volunteers and a classroom of kids who wanted to get coding, Mart tells us how their Code Club was born. Our Code Club runs in the eastern suburbs of Victoria, Australia, with numbers that have varied from 30 […]
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This week we speak to Jenny Riley, who shares her experience of setting up and getting started with Code Club. Read on to learn how Jenny has structured her first few sessions, and about the impact Code Club is having on the children involved. Starting a new Code Club In December last year, I approached […]
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Rachel Ivory, an inspiring student from Durham Johnston School, has been using Code Club projects and resources to introduce her younger peers to the wonders of computer science.
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Last month we set a challenge for our active UK Code Clubs: Create a digital collage of your favourite things using Scratch or HTML.
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Castlewood Code Club were not messing around when they decided to enter the latest Astro Pi competition. To prepare for their aviation-themed experiment they set out to Gatwick airport where they were given a private tour of a Boeing 777
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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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