Holly's Weekly Roundup
Have you heard of a Unimouse? Well...this week we discovered it in one of our Game Dev Clubs! Read more...
This week was my first time, personally, hearing "How did you get this job? Honestly, I just want to do what you do!" from a child and my heart just about melted.
I'm so grateful to be able to see your children develop every week on their coding journeys, and see their enthusiasm for it flourish as they discover something they feel great at. As I said to Arthur - there will always be a place at The Code Zone for any of our young coders!
We can't wait to celebrate the day a club attendee becomes a Mentor. This week's marble-tilting-hole-dodging game, Holey Roley, saw the birth of the mythical Unimouse!
I loved Livia's art this week, she always has great ideas to transform the games, her magical mouse run was a treat.
I'm very much looking forward to this week - this genuinely is the best job!
See you soon!
Holly
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.
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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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