Raspberry Pi Foundation

The Raspberry Pi Foundation will use the funding to create 76 new after school Coding Clubs. Currently around 4,500 children across Scotland aged 9-11 years old benefit from this project. These new clubs will help reach at least another 1,000 pupils by the end of April 2017.

Children in Code Clubs are helped by volunteers and educators to work through a curriculum of educational projects to learn about coding by making animations, games and websites.

This project will also place a coordinator in Scotland to focus on the face-to-face recruitment and training of new volunteers across Scotland, with a key focus on schools in four rural areas: Aberdeenshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Perth & Kinross and the Scottish Borders.

These Code Clubs aim to reach as many children in Scotland as possible to give them the skills, confidence and opportunity to discover the transformational power of programming through play.