CODING CLUB

Mrs Siobhan Mcclure

This academic year has seen the launch of Coding Club at Downe House.

Like-minded girls from all year groups are invited to come together and work collaboratively on an exciting range of problem-solving activities. The aim of the club is to provide an opportunity to explore and extend areas of computing and robotics, beyond the classroom syllabus.

A variety of hands-on activities have taken place this year, with the highlight being our group entry into the annual PA Raspberry Pi Competition! In keeping with this year’s theme ‘innovations to save the planet’, the DH Code Club team produced an educational role-player game (RPG) called ‘Save the Planet Dash’.

The girls designed and developed this idea entirely by themselves, coding their solution in Python, using the Raspberry Pi devices provided. Their code was modularised, so that it could be worked on and tested concurrently by different team members. The idea behind the game is to have fun while learning important facts and how to make planetsaving decisions!