{"id":342028,"date":"2017-05-26T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1496308"},"modified":"2017-05-26T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:57:59","slug":"raspberry-pi-foundation-and-coderdojo-to-code-club-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/raspberry-pi-foundation-and-coderdojo-to-code-club-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Foundation and CoderDojo to code club together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Raspberry Pi<\/a> Foundation has announced<\/a> it\u2019s\u00a0merging with another code club charity, Dublin-based CoderDojo.<\/a>\u00a0The aim is to\u00a0advance shared goals around furthering the march\u00a0of\u00a0computing education for young people.<\/p>\n

CoderDojo began in 2011, and at this point there are more than\u00a01,250 of its code clubs\u00a0across 69 countries, which it says are regularly attended by more than\u00a035,000 young people between the ages of seven and 17.<\/p>\n

The aim of the pair joining forces\u00a0is\u00a0to quadruple\u00a0that\u00a0number \u2014 with the goal of having 5,000 CoderDojos up and running by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing together Raspberry Pi, Code Club, and CoderDojo will\u00a0create the largest\u00a0global effort to get young people involved in computing and digital making,\u201d said Philip Colligan, CEO of the Pi Foundation, in a blog post<\/a>\u00a0announcing the merger.<\/p>\n

The Pi Foundation\u2019s\u00a0core\u00a0mission<\/a> has always been to get more kids coding \u2014 even as the low cost single board computers it designs have found their way into the hands of\u00a0makers<\/a> of all ages.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0said today it will provide practical, financial, and back-office support to the CoderDojo Foundation, which will continue as\u00a0an independent charity, based in Ireland. The merger is subject to approval by Irish regulators.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing about CoderDojo\u2019s brand or ethos is changing as a result of this merger,\u201d added\u00a0Colligan. \u201cCoderDojos will continue to be platform-neutral, using whatever kit\u00a0they need to help young people learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colligan will be joining the board of the CoderDojo Foundation as a director, while the Pi Foundation will become\u00a0a corporate member, though there\u2019s no financial interest here as both are not-for-profits.<\/p>\n

This is not the Pi Foundation\u2019s first such merger.\u00a0Back in November 2015<\/a>\u00a0it also\u00a0joined forces with UK-based Code Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time there were\u00a0around 3,150 Code Clubs in\u00a0the U.K. with some 44,000 regular attendees, and a further 1,000 clubs globally. Figures that have since\u00a0stepped up to almost\u00a05,900 UK Code Clubs reaching around\u00a082,000 kids, and a wider network of 10,000 Code Clubs\u00a0around the world reaching circa\u00a0100,000 kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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