The Prenda Code Club Blog
Stories and insights from the Prenda team on topics surrounding coding education.
We started a Newsletter!
We are excited to have officially launched our first ever monthly Newsletter! Yesterday, some ten thousand inboxes around the country received a fun, informative, and inspiring newsletter from yours truly. We're excited to keep our...
Educational E-Resources for Kids in a Post-COVID-19 Library Land
Here we are, smack dab in the middle of the summer of 2020. And the world has changed. In Library Land, it has been a dramatic transition that looked like libraries closing their doors overnight, back in March and April of this year....
How to Run Virtual Code Clubs Webinar Recording
This morning we ran a webinar called "How to Run Virtual Code Clubs" with TJ DeWitt, Director of the Jones Creativity Center, co-hosting with Luke Miller, Prenda Code Club CEO. This is a great training for the COVID-19 era. For all those...
The New Town Story
In the summer of 2017 we ran a program called the One to One Campaign. The federal government was threatening to slash funding to the IMLS, and things looked bleak. The One to One Campaign was our way of championing the things we felt...
Summer Code Club Program
For the first time in Prenda's history, we've created a code club program designed for summer reading programs. And we are excited! This is going to be a great opportunity to serve kids all across the country with STEM programming at...
The Code Club Movement: Spring Update
This spring we saw a record number of kids come through our clubs, dozens of librarians with no coding skills get trained up, and went from catalyzing clubs in five to fifteen states. But my favorite story comes from a tiny Oklahoma...
Already Running a Code Club? Prenda Saves You Money
Last week we found out that one woman took The Ultimate Guide to Code Club resource kit and successfully got her own code club off the ground. She even gave a presentation on it at a conference. Amazing, right? We've given away over 500...
What if we accidentally make coding boring and lame?
Computer science is gaining ground in schools, but are we accidentally making it boring?
One hour of code is just the beginning
It's Computer Science Education Week, and millions of people will do some coding this week at one of 150,000 events around the world. Thanks to the amazing efforts of code.org and lots of partners, over 300 million people have tried...
Getting along with computers – the skills of the future
The world needs effective, sustained coding education now more than ever. Things are changing. Computers are everywhere. Automation is a key factor in the world economy, and connection via the internet is too. With technology accelerating...