SOCIAL enterprise AFBE-UK Scotland has launched an initiative to equip young people with the requisite coding skills to pursue their development possibilities in the digital era.
The organisation has introduced its NextGen Coding Club for young people aged from eight to 17 of all races, with special emphasis on children in the minority ethnic community.
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Aberdeen-based AFBE-UK, which promotes diversity and inclusion and specifically encourages the pursuit of careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, has already hosted its first club activities but a programme of events is scheduled for throughout 2021.
The next event is taking place during w/c March 29 and is themed Games and Animation with Scratch.
Club activities take place live online so that facilitators – including developers, programmers and software engineers – can provide one-to-one support for the young coders.
Dr Urenna Adegbotolu, programme lead, said: “The beauty of the coding club is that the young people are co-creators of the course curriculum and they engage in educating each other, so they’re acquiring other life skills during each session.”
