Code Club

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.[1] The organization also expanded internationally, and there are now over 13,000 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]

For the Swedish video game developer, see Code Club AB.
Code Club
Founded2012 (2012)
Founder
Location
Area served
United Kingdom
Websitecodeclub.org.uk

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[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 3 November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation."[11][12] 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.

gollark: All the time.
gollark: And then make C with higher kinded types.
gollark: They should rewrite GCC in Haskell.
gollark: gcc_irl
gollark: Any sufficiently developed and widely used software inevitably accretes large amounts of incomprehensible tweaks.

References
  1. "Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. "Code Club World – A worldwide network of coding clubs for children". www.codeclubworld.org. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. Robert Bisland (2013). "A day in the life of a Code Club volunteer". Sponsor's Blog. Postcode Anywhere. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. Angela Davis (2013). "The region's techies help to influence a 'program' for change in the classroom". Sponsor's Blog. Postcode Anywhere. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. Guy Mucklow (2013). "Kindergarten Code". Sponsor's Blog. Postcode Anywhere. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  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. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  8. "Afterschool 'Code Clubs' planned to teach kids programming". Wired. Conde Nast. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  9. "Code Club About". Code Club. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  10. "Code and a have a go if you think you're good enough". Daily Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  11. "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  12. Cellan-Jones, Rory (24 June 2019). "The Raspberry Pi goes Fourth". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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