To celebrate EU Code Week 2014 CoderDojo and UPC have announced the creation of 10 new clubs across Ireland over the next 12 months.
UPC launched its first coding club, D4 CoderDojo, in June 2014, with children as young as 6-years-of-age learning how to embrace coding using the learning resources and guidelines of scratch.
Mary Moloney, global CEO of CoderDojo, said: “Coding knowhow and experience is becoming an important skill for young people, whether for future jobs or as a basic literacy and problem solving tool, which they use in life. Being able to code is almost like having a superpower and EU Code Week offers us the opportunity to make coding more visible not only amongst the children themselves, but also among parents, teachers, people in technology and the general public.”
The announcement is part of UPC’s involvement with the Davos Declaration on the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, an initiative launched by the European Commission to respond to the shortage of workers in the digital sector for almost 900,000 ICT positions, including 7,000 Irish opportunities.
To register for D4 CoderDojo on 11 October click here or learn more about EU Code Week at www.codeweek.eu.
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