Volunteers Needed at Coding & Robotics Clubs
Helping young people develop new skills and explore their creativity is very rewarding. Also, it’s a lot of fun!
CoderLevelUp supports free coding clubs and competitive robotics programmes across South Africa — and all of them rely on volunteers.
We need your help!
You could become a mentor and help young people learn to code. To help beginners, you don’t even need technical skills — enthusiasm and a willingness to learn alongside the kids goes a long way.
You could also help with setting up the space, recording attendance, running social media, or supporting a club’s operations behind the scenes. There’s a role for everyone.
Fill in the CoderLevelUp Volunteer form or mail volunteer@coderlevelup.org.
Code Club
Code Club is a free, volunteer-led coding club for young people aged 9-13. Clubs meet weekly at schools, libraries, and community centres across the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.
What volunteers do: Guide learners through Raspberry Pi Foundation projects in Scratch, Python, and HTML. No advanced coding knowledge needed for beginners — the projects are designed to be accessible.
We now have 1,000+ clubs running across South Africa, with 400+ in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape. Read more in our Code Club 2026 update.
If you’re curious whether there’s already a club near you:
Ready to volunteer with Code Club?
- Volunteer with Code Club
- 30-min safeguarding module (required): Safeguarding e-learning
- Mentoring guide: Dojo Mentoring
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)
FTC is a competitive robotics programme for young people aged 12-18. Teams design, build, programme, and operate robots to compete — including at the World Championship in Houston. Two Western Cape teams, Texpand and Autonova, are heading to Worlds in 2026.
What volunteers do: Mentor a team (engineering, coding, strategy), or serve at events as a judge, referee, or field volunteer. FTC events only happen because of volunteers.
You don’t need to be a robotics expert — teams benefit enormously from mentors who bring project management, communication, documentation, or general engineering skills.
Ready to volunteer with FTC?
Get Involved
Whether it’s Code Club, FTC, or something else at CoderLevelUp, we’d love to hear from you.
Fill in the CoderLevelUp Volunteer form or mail volunteer@coderlevelup.org.
