One of the things we’re really proud of at Code Club Australia is our commitment to Digital Inclusion and our passion to make sure every child has the opportunity to learn how to code, even if their internet is ‘questionable’.
We’re here to help!
If you’re using Scratch offline this blog post will help get you started!
The first thing you’ll need to do is download Scratch. The Scratch offline interface is almost exactly the same as the online experience.
The differences lie only in how you save and access your project (see below)
You’ll need to teach your kids…
The streamers have settled, the computers have cooled, and we’ve done our data analysis for Moonhack 2021!
Over the past 6 years, more than 150,000 kids have coded as part of Moonhack!!
Keep reading to celebrate some of our favourite Moonhack moments!
Ali, from Code Club Iraq shared this video from one of his students (they’re saying thank you in Arabic!)
We joined the #PrimarySTEMChat party. Teachers — the amazing Emily Ross saved this wakelet to keep track of all the resources!
Coder Dojo Kinsale (that’s in Ireland!) …
Have you ever thought about how much carbon your lifestyle is responsible for? Interested in what your biggest impact area is?
Code your own Carbon Calculator using Python as part of Moonhack 2021!
Moonhack 2021 is a week celebrating the stories and ideas that can help improve our planet by helping kids code their own planet-saving solutions
Register your participation at Moonhack.com
This Moonhack project is perfect for kids looking for a little bit of a challenge in Python, definitely not for beginners! Kids learn all about loops, using data and integers and more!
In this project, kids are asked…
Are the kids in your life looking for something a little trickier when it comes to Scratch coding? The Home Power Hero project, part of this year’s Moonhack event, is your answer!
Moonhack 2021 is a week celebrating the stories and ideas that can help improve our planet by helping kids code their own planet-saving solutions
Register your participation at Moonhack.com
This project focuses on empowering kids to make decisions to turn off appliances in their home to save power. The player controls Avery, who has to turn off her laptop, light and tv before the wattage gets too high!
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Moonhack 2021 is a week celebrating the stories and ideas that can help improve our planet by helping kids code their own planet-saving solutions
Register your participation at Moonhack.com
The first project in our 2021 series is Nature Returns — an animation that tells the story of the bush regenerating after a bushfire.
In the lesson, suitable for beginner Scratch coders, students code the fire to randomly move around the screen. The bushes then react by disappearing and growing back.
Australian bush has been shaped by fire with many plants evolving to grow and seed more successfully after a fire.
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Code your own Dhinawan in the stars and see what the stars are doing here on Country!
By Tess Reading
Aboriginal people are the world’s oldest Astronomers. The Gomeroi people use the night sky to see what is happening on country and each seasons changes.
The Dhinawan is just one of the stories that is known to the Gomeroi people, however this story is also shared across many language groups. The stars are a central way to trace stories and time.
In our Dhinawan in the Sky game, you will learn and code each of the different phases that the Dhinawan goes through between April and September. …
Last week we had the phenomenal privilege to hang out with some of the coolest people we’ve met in a while! The Atlassian Grads!
This group of 100 young people joined us for our first official Code Club Hackathon. And let me tell you, it was a blast!
Atlassian is a long-term partner of our friends at Raspberry Pi. If you’ve ever done a Code Club project in a language other than English, it’s likely some wonderful Atlassians translated it for you!
But, the Aussie and Kiwi Atlassian joined us to create coding projects and lessons that tell Australian stories…
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021 we asked some of our favourite women in tech who inspired them! From teachers to parents and even total strangers, don’t underestimate the difference you can have on a young person, especially as a Code Club volunteer!
The wonderful librarians at Yarra Plenty Regional Library sat down to let us know how their club was going during Covid. Read on to hear about the awesome at-home Code Club sessions. And get in touch if you’d like to share a story from your club! — Nicola, Code Club
Scratch Code Club has been a popular program at Yarra Plenty Regional Library since we began offering sessions in 2017. Interest had steadily grown which allowed us to add Intermediate and Advanced sessions for our keen coders to continue on their creative coding. We had built up such great momentum…
Did you know that there are over 70 million sheep in Australia? Do you know how many people there are — only 25 million!
That means there are three sheep for every person! Imagine everyone in your class or Code Club with three sheep following them!
Sheep farmers lead very busy lives looking after their sheep. They breed and raise the animals, provide feed for them, look after their paddocks and more!
Some sheep farms also have goats! Did you know that goat is the most popular meat in the world! Have you ever eaten goat?
On the farm in…
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Code Club Australia is a nationwide network of free, volunteer-led, after-school coding clubs for children aged 8–15. https://codeclubau.org/
