Founded 2012 (2012) Area served United Kingdom | Location United Kingdom Website codeclub.org.uk | |
Founder Clare Sutcliffe
Linda Sandvik Slogan Inspire kids to learn to code | ||
Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012, which aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 11 to developing coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues had established a Code Club, regularly attended by an estimated 44,000 young people across the United Kingdom. The organisation has also expanded internationally, and there are now over 6,000 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.
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History
Code Club is the brain child of Clare Sutcliffe MBE and Linda Sandvik,
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.
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 the 3rd of November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation."
Technologies
The curriculum teaches children Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python.