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Take part in Hour of Code 2018

Every year for the last five years, Hour of Code has encouraged school students to spend just one hour writing some code, in the hope that they get bitten by the bug rather than generating too many bugs! This year, you can find activities from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Code Club, and CoderDojo on the official Hour of Code website . Boat race Boat race , a Code Club resource, is a one-hour project aimed at beginners

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Celebrating European Code Week with our annual EUDojo

On Wednesday 17 October, CoderDojo held the sixth annual EUDojo in the European Parliament in Brussels. EUDojo 2018 Since last year’s event, CoderDojo has grown significantly: we have almost 500 new Dojos, and our network now spreads to over 100 countries! We organised this year’s EUDojo to coincided with the annual Europe Code Week — also in its sixth year

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Hang out with Raspberry Pi this month in California, New York, and Boston

This month sees two wonderful events where you can meet the Raspberry Pi team, both taking place on the weekend of September 22 and 23 in the USA. And for more impromptu fun, you can also hang out with our Social Media Editor and fellow Pi enthusiasts on the East Coast on September 24–28

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Bell Gardens’ Code Club is headed to Coolest Projects North America

Located outside Los Angeles, the Boys & Girls Club of Bell Gardens run after-school and summer programming for youth in the community. The club at Bell Gardens is part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America , a national organization of local chapters that offer after-school programs for young people.

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Join us at the Education Summit at PyCon UK 2018

PyCon UK 2018 will take place on Saturday 15 September to Wednesday 19 September in the splendid Cardiff City Hall, just a few miles from the Sony Technology Centre where the vast majority of Raspberry Pis is made.

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Start a CoderDojo with our free online training

You can now sign up to our newest free online course Start a CoderDojo to learn more about CoderDojo and how you can easily set up one of these free coding clubs for young people in your area. With less than two weeks until the course begins, we wanted to tell you about the course’s content and why the course’s creator put it together for you. Start a CoderDojo || free online learning || Raspberry Pi Foundation Get support and advice on how to grow your confidence in coding and start a CoderDojo for young people in your area

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Free Weekly Raspberry Pi Club At Los Alamos Makers – Los Alamos Daily Post

Free Weekly Raspberry Pi Club At Los Alamos Makers Los Alamos Daily Post With the help of Akkana, Los Alamos Makers has been successfully mentoring programmers of all experience levels during their CoderDojo for over a year, and now, by popular demand, they are ready to take it to the next level and help community members …

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The CoderDojo Girls Initiative

In March, the CoderDojo Foundation launched their Girls Initiative , which aims to increase the average proportion of girls attending CoderDojo clubs from 29% to at least 40% over the next three years. Six months on, we wanted to highlight what we’ve done so far and what’s next for our initiative. What we’ve done so far To date, we have focussed our efforts on four key areas: Developing and improving content Conducting and learning from research Highlighting role models Developing a guide of tried and tested best practices for encouraging and sustaining girls in a Dojo setting ( Empowering the Future ) Content We’ve taken measures to ensure our resources are as friendly to girls as well as boys, and we are improving them based on feedback from girls.

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Opinion: Raspberry Pi Merger With CoderDojo Isn’t All It Seems – IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum Opinion: Raspberry Pi Merger With CoderDojo Isn't All It Seems IEEE Spectrum This past Friday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation became one.

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