Happy International Day of Friendship!
It's International Day of Friendship and we'll be celebrating by continuing to make sure our clubs are a safe, fun, and welcoming space for all!
Keep reading to find out more...
It’s International Day of Friendship! I don’t know about you but I love my friends, and think they should be celebrated at all times. It’s just luck that they have a day all about it!
But how, I hear you ask, does this matter or impact our coding sessions both online and in person? Easily! These sessions provide an excellent, safe space for our members to chat to likeminded people in their own age group!
The power of STEM Certified Mentors
Our Mentors are always happy for members to chat to each other about their current interests while coding away. After all, seeing the same people every week is a great way to make friends so we’d be MAD to not let conversations spark up!
This feels even more valued in our IRL sessions, where our members can more easily have face to face conversations with each other, drastically improving that rapport build up!
Participate how you feel comfortable
Across all of our sessions, both online and in person our mentors aim to invite everyone to participate in conversations and activities we have going on, allowing even the quieter members to have their voices and opinions heard. Our main aim is to have the sessions be fun, and anything learned is an extra bonus.
Book a FREE taster to give it a go!
If you think a coding club is a great way to have your child build friendships, why not sign up for a free taster session today and see what we can do for you!
About The Code Zone Academy
Posts like this one are written by the mentors, about what members have been building. The Game Dev Academy has no fixed session time: a new build goes up every week and a child opens it whenever they are ready, with a STEM-certified mentor answering by text and video message when they get stuck.
Children build their own games rather than following a set course, starting in Scratch. Levels move down as readily as up, and staying where you are is a perfectly good outcome. Every mentor is background-checked and STEM-certified.
More like this
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
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