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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the Swedish video game developer, see <a href="Code_Club_AB" title="Code Club AB">Code Club AB</a>.</div>
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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Code Club</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data note">2012<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2012</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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<ul><li><a href="Clare_Sutcliffe" title="Clare Sutcliffe">Clare Sutcliffe</a></li>
<li>Linda Sandvik</li></ul>
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<p><b>Code Club</b> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organization also expanded internationally, and there are now over 13,000 Code Club operating worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Volunteer programmers and software developers give their time to run Code Club sessions, passing on their programming skills and mentoring the young students.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Children create their own computer games, animations and websites, learning how to use technology creatively.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>It has <a href="Scratch_(programming_language)" title="Scratch (programming language)">Scratch</a>, <a href="HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> & <a href="CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a>, Python and a variety of other coding languages. The initiative also provide free BBC Micro:bits to children above the age of 9.
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<p>Code Club is the brain child of <a href="Clare_Sutcliffe" title="Clare Sutcliffe">Clare Sutcliffe</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Linda Sandvik,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>A <a href="Viral_video" title="Viral video">viral video</a> featuring <a href="Prince_Andrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Andrew">Prince Andrew</a>, <a href="Martha_Lane_Fox" title="Martha Lane Fox">Martha Lane Fox</a>, <a href="Chad_Hurley" title="Chad Hurley">Chad Hurley</a>, <a href="Niklas_Zennstr%C3%B6m" title="Niklas Zennström">Niklas Zennström</a>, <a href="Brent_Hoberman" title="Brent Hoberman">Brent Hoberman</a> and <a href="Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> was released to promote awareness of the project.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>On 3 November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the <a href="Raspberry_Pi_Foundation" title="Raspberry Pi Foundation">Raspberry Pi Foundation</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 16 March 2018, Clare Sutcliffe, then executive director at Raspberry Pi, announced leaving both Code Club and Raspberry Pi.
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<p>The curriculum teaches children <a href="Scratch_(programming_language)" title="Scratch (programming language)">Scratch</a>, <a href="HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> & <a href="CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a> and <a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>. Students and teachers use the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://trinket.io/">Trinket</a> web browser application to write code.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621111906/https://www.codeclub.org.uk/">Code Club project page</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhGIajRsq4">Code Club Interview</a> on <a href="YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a></li>
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