Resources to support your club.

Content, printables and more! From Raspberry Pi, Google, Microsoft, MIT, and DBE.

Raspberry Pi Foundation

The Raspberry Pi foundation works to make coding more accessible to young people. Code club is one pillar that supports this goal, and these free resources are there to help you along your journey.

Pathways

Paths are a series of 6 projects that help to build your coding and design skills. Paths will help you gain new skills, then make design choices to personalise your projects, and finally create something unique.

Are you a mentor? Have a look at our guide to paths.

• Scratch Pathways Begin your adventure in digital making, by learning to code animations, stories, and games in Scratch.
• micro:bit pathways sensors, buttons and lights! In this introduction to coding for the micro:bit, you will learn how to sense and respond to the world around you while looking after yourself.
• more pathways… in Unity, HTML + CSS, Python, Raspberry Pi

code club “on a stick”

To run code club in classrooms without internet connections, you can copy the code club on a stick folder onto a flash drive and it has installers for scratch and pdfs for all of the scratch pathways.

bit.ly/codeclub-stick

code club Community of Practice

You can also learn by plugging into dynamic people running clubs near & far.

Try joining an event from code club Training & Events to learn and connect with the global community of practice.

Code Club has been growing in schools and South Africa now (July2024) has:

• 148+ clubs running in Western Cape led by Anelisa Masebe in collaboration with WCED and SADTU
• Libraries: we’re piloting CoderDojo in the Library with Cape Town City Libraries identifying an initial 5-10 libraries, which means any of the 104 (yep!) libraries in the city will be potential pilots, and ultimately we’d like to see them all running.
• 200+ clubs running in KZN led by Julia Reader in collaboration with Keep a Child Alive and Blue Roof
• 2 new school clubs and 1 library starting led by Esethu Stofile of ECDoE

If you’re curious to see if there is already a club near you to connect with, you can check out:

• code club: find a Code Club (change the location and range to find more clubs)

Google

CS First

Teach computer programming and coding to your kids with the CS First curriculum, free of charge. Students can create fun, interactive projects.

csfirst.withgoogle.com

Digital Skills for Africa

Whether you’re writing your first CV or deepening your technical knowledge, our library is full of ways to sharpen your digital skillset.

grow.google/intl/ssa-en

Tech Dev Guide

If you have foundational skills and want to go to the next level, there’s something for you here in Google’s Tech Dev Guide.

techdevguide.withgoogle.com

Microsoft Research

micro:bit MakeCode

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the micro:bit powered by Microsoft MakeCode.

makecode.microbit.org

MakeCode Arcade

Develop your programming skills by quickly creating and modding retro arcade games with Blocks and JavaScript in the MakeCode editor.

arcade.makecode.com

MakeCode Maker

A Blocks / JavaScript code editor for MakeCode Maker Boards including pi pico.

maker.makecode.com

code.org

Tap into your students’ full potential with Code.org’s free Computer Science (CS) curriculum.

code.org

Looking forward to seeing what you make in your club!