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Code Club – Regional Coordinator, West Midlands

Services community management, social, education, facilitation, make, tech, workshops, research
Date 2015-ongoing
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Code Club – Regional Coordinator, West Midlands (2015 – present)
Raspberry Pi Foundation
This is an employed role

I have managed the regional community of Code Club across the West Midlands for the past three years.

Code Club is a UK-wide network of FREE after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11, providing resources which take children step-by-step through the process of creating games and animations either in Scratch (which most clubs start off with), HTML/CSS and Python.

Clubs are typically run for an hour a week with 10-15 children, but the model is very flexible and can be adapted to suit the venue, volunteers and participants.
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Results/Achievements
  • Transforming a region which had a limited exposure to Code Club previously
  • Building high-end strategic relationships across business and education
  • Promoting, leading and facilitating training sessions, meetups, taster sessions, workshops across the West Midlands
  • Providing a steer on current and future development of systems, products and services to improve the experience of our users – agile approaches, EAST.
  • Quintupled the number of clubs in first three years in post (over 600 across West Midlands region)
  • Putting in play a relationship with the Society of Chief Librarians which led to influencing digital agendas in libraries across UK having a significant national impact on club numbers
  • managing of regional initiatives and partnerships including with Samsung, Fujitsu, Google and others.
  • blog post.

Apps/software used

  • Cross-business use of Google Drive, Hangouts, Github including Waffle, Prosperworks and Slack
  • Evernote, Trello Boards, Streak for gmail
  • Hootsuite/Twitter
  • Calendly
  • Coding and programmming – Scratch, Python, HTML/CSS (use of Trinket.io), Sonic Pi (Ruby);
  • Physical computing – Raspberry Pi, Arduino, micro:bit

Affiliations

  • Raspberry Pi Certificated Educator
  • STEM Ambassador

Twitter – @codeclubwmids

 

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