Code Club

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Code Club
Founded2012 (2012)
Founder
Location
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United Kingdom
LeaderInnocent Muhire
Website codeclub.org.uk

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]

Contents

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.

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  2. ↑ "Code Club World – A worldwide network of coding clubs for children". www.codeclubworld.org. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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