Prewired Receives Funding to Bring Coding Club Online Michael Behr 20 January 2021, 10.33am
The new funding will help fill gaps in Scotland’s digital skills knowledge as the pandemic makes in-class learning impossible.
Youth programming club Prewired has secured funding from Creative Informatics to help the long-running Edinburgh group move online.
Before the pandemic, Prewired sessions took place at CodeBase in Edinburgh. The funding will help the social enterprise embark on online learning for young people across Edinburgh, with plans to expand nationwide in Scotland in due course.
The Creative Informatics funding is also being used to adapt the Prewired Summer Hack, previously offered as a week-long team-based event for
Prewired secures funding from Creative Informatics to take one of Scotlandâs longest-running coding clubs for young people online
20th January 2021
Prewired also supported by CodeBase, Deliveroo and Skyscanner
Prewired has taught coding and digital skills to over 350 under-19s since being founded in 2013 in partnership with University of Edinburghâs School of InformaticsÂ
Scottish charity Prewired was set up in response to âeducational gapâ in provision of digital skills in ScotlandÂ
Computer programming sessions had taken place at CodeBase in Edinburgh pre-pandemic
Regina Vereker, Resident Entrepreneur at Prewired, says: âWe will be using funding to develop online resources for young people to learn coding, design and other digital skills, while building a digital community so they can engage with each other and share knowledge”