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This is how we coded: a recap of Europe & Africa Code Weeks

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Cheshire East Libraries ran workshops designed to encourage kids to engage with computer science. The results were a real catalyst for staff, who have gained the confidence to now run their own Code Clubs in Alsager and Bollington, with other libraries planning to launch additional Code Clubs soon.

More than 300 students in Slovenia took part in 27 programming workshops offered by our grant recipient FabLab Network.

Lithuanian teachers learning to offer Computer Science education activities in their classrooms in Kaunas, Šiauliai and Šalčininkai experienced the creative side of computing with augmented reality using smartphones and Google Cardboards. Ninety teachers participated in workshops provided by our grant awardee "Information Technologies Institute."


In Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Laboratorium set up a workshop where in one project, team “Tribus” worked on a collaborative website for disaster preparation, learning about HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Students of all ages were so excited about the models they made during their 3D printing workshops that ANBPR (our grantee in Cluj, Bucharest and Brailia) offered an additional session at the national Library of Romania.

At Attymass National School in Ireland, students drew on their computational thinking skills to create their first coding programs using Scratch and Google's CS First activities.

Tych Zoe Global Network organized coding workshops for 871 students at several schools in Nigeria as part of Africa Code Week 2018.

LetKidsCode provided coding workshops for 550 beginners to spark interest in ICT and related careers in Gambia.

Kitale students learning programming using Edison Robots during Africa Code Week workshop.

SIYAFUNDA CTC empowered community center trainers to provide coding programs to more than 50,000 students.

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