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There’s plenty to create, share, and celebrate at Code Club this month!
Get your creators designing, coding, and making, hear ideas from fellow mentors, and discover what’s happening across the Code Club community. 

🌍 Around the community

In September, we loved seeing what you got up to:

🇰🇪 Congratulations to Mwingo Academy Primary School in Mombasa on their first Code Club session!

🇬🇧 Wirral Code Club went to Liverpool Makefest and showcased their ‘world-famous’ Makey Makey banana piano!

🇮🇪 Youth mentor Aimee from Ireland shared her experience with other mentors at ‘Meet Learn Make’. 

Your club, your sprite

Could your club design our next project sprite? Create an original sprite that celebrates your club or community for the chance to feature in a new Code Club Scratch project.

Draw, collage, or design digitally — no coding needed! Submit your design and its story by 9 November

Design your sprite
 

Try this project: Recipe

Cook up a webpage and celebrate World Food Day on 16 October! Invite creators to share a favourite recipe from their home, culture, or community. In this HTML project, they’ll design and customise a webpage to showcase their chosen dish.

 

The Code Club arcade 

All six Code Club Arcade games are here!

Consider them your starting blocks: pull them apart, personalise them, rebuild them, and show us what your creators make.

Explore the arcade
 

Your advice 

Last month, we asked how you begin your Code Club sessions. Lievin, a mentor from Burundian Kids, shared his tip:

What works for you?

How do you keep experienced coders challenged and engaged? Share your ideas and we’ll feature some next month. 

Share your idea
 

Attend a Code Club workshop

Explore our online meet-ups and interactive workshops! 

Come along and gain valuable insights and top tips for running your Code Club — we’d love for you to join us.

Book your place

Coolest Projects returns in 2027!

It’s time for your creators to start dreaming up their next cool idea! The first Coolest Projects 2027 event dates are here, with more to come.

Creating with confidence in Türkiye

“Having materials in Turkish lets students focus on understanding coding logic.” – Abide Tuncer from Habitat Association.

Discover how translated Code Club projects are helping young creators build confidence and tell their own stories through code.
Explore more
 

Could Bebras work in your Code Club?

Richard gave the UK Bebras Challenge a go with his Code Club — and his creators loved it.

Discover what happened and how your club can take part this year.



 
Richard's story

Send code into space

The European Astro Pi Challenge is back! Code Club creators can write code that will run aboard the International Space Station. They can create pixel art with Mission Zero or design a real science experiment with Mission Space Lab.

Next month

🎉We're celebrating your 2026 highlights! Start thinking about the Code Club moments and achievements you're most proud of.

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