🍁Autumn 2024

Welcome back everyone!

We’re excited to welcome you back with some fantastic updates and new features. This term, we’ve introduced a beta release of our Python Den, some updates to Rapid Router, and some new features in the level editor. Our goal is to support you in creating an engaging and effective learning environment for your students. Stay tuned for upcoming events and online sessions to help you get the most out of these new features. Here’s to a successful school year ahead!

Alicia Chong Rodriguez

"We can track heart rhythm, breathing, temperature, posture and movement, and by applying algorithms, we can use this data to decode symptoms, articulate arrhythmia triggers and generate personalised digital biomarkers."

Alicia Chong Rodriguez, A smart bra for better heart health

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Did you know?

Bloomer Tech is named after Amelia Bloomer, an activist for women's rights who encouraged women to wear loose-fitting pants!

Have you seen the cows? Keep a look out for the cows on some levels, they appear in the most inconvenient places! We have also introduced pigeons to our city scenes! This is thanks to our work experience student that came to us at the beginning of the summer. Énora worked on several new elements for Rapid Router scenes. Read More

Translations of blocks

Our colleagues at Ocado have been helping us out with some translations for our customers in other parts of the world. You now have the ability to translate the blocks in Rapid Router into Catalan, Spanish, French and Hindi, with other translations coming soon. Get in touch and let us know what could help you out too.

Events and Workshops

Craig n' Dave conference

Code for Life attended the first Craig n' Dave event up at Bramsgrove School and enjoyed a day of conversation and talks. It was great to meet everyone and we hope we gained a few more schools. Read More

	CAS conference We had a great time at the CAS conference in July where we had a stand, and delivered two workshops for primary and secondary teachers. Lots of great conversations and questions. Read More
World Tour - UK Leg We completed the UK leg of the world tour with a fantastic reception from the year 3's at Howe Dell primary school in Hatfield. They were amazed at all the technology and automation behind sorting and packing deliveries for their homes, and got stuck into design and coding exercises with the team. Read More
	In2Science Contributor session After selecting 13 students, we spent the afternoon helping everyone get set up and ready to contribute to our initiative as external contributors. Fuelled with pizza and enthusiasm, we managed to get most set up and have had contributions to our code that have made it into production already! Interested in becoming a contributor? Read More

Upcoming

We have a few events to look forward to this term too. including an adult re-skilling session through Careers you Love. Keep a look out on social media for upcoming sessions.

Under the Spotlight

Salman Ashraf - Intern software engineer

Salman Ashraf - Intern software engineer

Salman, a computer science student from Manchester University, worked with us as an intern for 10 weeks this summer. Read about what he got up to in the text below, and what he thinks about learning new digital skills.

"In just 5 weeks, I had the opportunity to dive deep into Python Django and to explore the vast capabilities of AWS and GCP. I've engaged with the senior developers, learned about the technologies at CFL and contributed to a meaningful project. "

I work as a Software Engineer Intern, where I help build computer programs to improve user experience. I got this role by studying hard in school, learning about computers and coding in my free time, and doing well in my classes at the University of Manchester. I enjoy my job because I get to solve puzzles every day by figuring out how to make our programs run faster and better.

Learning new digital skills is important because it allows us to create tools that help people in their daily lives. With better digital tools, we can make online shopping faster, help doctors keep track of patients, or even help scientists discover new medicines. By improving technology, we make life easier and solve big problems in our world. Read More

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