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Top Christmas Gifts for Creative Kids

Top Christmas Gifts for Creative Kids

With such a burgeoning universe of tech toys, coding challenges, and puzzling projects available this Christmas, we have compiled our top gifts to fuel your child’s imagination and help develop their computational thinking; all whilst having fun, of course!

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Our Favourite Moments from October Camps

Our Favourite Moments from October Camps

We have just had an amazing couple of weeks during our October Coding Camps, doing everything from designing games to building robots to 3D printing every creation we could think of! Our campers equipped themselves with key coding, programming, problem-solving skills, all while having lots of fun.
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Our favourite coding resources - all free!

Our favourite coding resources - all free!

We get a lot of questions from parents about how to practice coding at home. We’re all for coding practice: The more children practice, the more confident they will become. The good news is that there are lots of high quality, free resources available online. Here are some of our favourites.
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How to keep your kids coding during term time

How to keep your kids coding during term time

The only way to get better at coding is to practice it! Even the top coders had to start somewhere and we all know that practice makes perfect. But with everyone’s lives busier than ever it’s difficult to fit in practice in between school and all the extra-curricular activities your children are involved in. We’ve rounded up some of the best websites that your child can use to practice their coding with.

 

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