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Clare Sutcliffe
MBE
Sutcliffe speaks at the Technology4Good Awards in 2013
Alma materBath Spa University
Known forCode Club
AwardsMBE 2016
Websiteclaresutcliffe.co.uk

Clare Sutcliffe MBE is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of Code Club. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2015.

Early life and education

Sutcliffe studied graphic design at Bath Spa University.[1][2]

Career

After graduating, Sutcliffe worked in web design. She joined Pixelgroup in 2010, where she started BrainyHacks, a non technical hacking event.[3][4] In 2012 she joined marketing agency Albion and designed the messaging application for Telefónica.[5] She spoke about Hacking the Future at TEDx Brighton.[6][7]

Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club with Linda Sandvik in 2012.[8][9] She served as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for 4,000 after school coding clubs for children aged 9 to 13 years old. Code Club creates educational material for volunteers who teach children for an hour after school.[1] Half of the volunteers are from private sector companies.[10] The children learn how to program, build computer games and make websites.[1] They program in Scratch, then HTML, CSS and Python.[11][12] Sutcliffe got funding from Arm and Google.[13] Code Club went global in 2014.[14] She has provided evidence for the government on the UK's fragmented digital skills training.[15] In 2015 Sutcliffe launched CodeClubPro to better support computer science teachers.[16]

Sutcliffe led Code Club to merge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015 and was appointed executive director of communities and outreach.[17][18][19][20]

In 2016 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours.[21] She was named one of Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in IT.[13] She left the Raspberry Pi Foundation in March 2018.[22]

She was appointed the Chair of Trustees at the Beam Foundation in October 2018.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Beyond Bath Spa". www.bathspa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  2. ^ "SPARTAN Summer 2014". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  3. ^ "Brainyhacks - Clare Sutcliffe". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  4. ^ "Brainyhacks 2 - full of Spark+Mettle - Pixelgroup Pixelgroup". www.pixelgroup.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  5. ^ NClarkson (2018-01-11). "Empowering people to fulfil their potential at work". Virgin. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  6. ^ TEDx Talks (2012-11-16), Hacking the future | Clare Sutcliffe | TEDxBrighton, retrieved 2018-08-03
  7. ^ "Clare Sutcliffe | TEDxBrighton". TEDxBrighton. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  8. ^ Salter, Jessica (2013-11-23). "Coding for kids: schoolchildren learn computer programming". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  9. ^ "Coding comes to primary schools". BBC News. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  10. ^ "Future Proofing Today's Students Against Tomorrow's Digital Skills Gap". HuffPost UK. 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  11. ^ "Code Club - Changing schools by making computing finally fun - The Next Billion". The Next Billion. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  12. ^ "An interview with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-founder of Code Club | CAUSE4". www.cause4.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  13. ^ a b "15. Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder, Code Club; executive director, communities & outreach, Raspberry Pi - The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016". www.computerweekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  14. ^ "Clare Sutcliffe on helping kids learn to code". Creative Bloq. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  15. ^ "Lords Committee asks how to join up 'fragmented' digital skills teaching". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  16. ^ "Q&A with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-Founder & CEO of Code Club - Viewpoint - careers advice blogViewpoint – careers advice blog". social.hays.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  17. ^ "Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.'s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  18. ^ "Innovate My School - Clare Sutcliffe". www.innovatemyschool.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  19. ^ "13. Clare Sutcliffe, executive director, communities and outreach, Raspberry Pi Foundation - The 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2017". www.computerweekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  20. ^ "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi". Raspberry Pi. 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  21. ^ "Clare Sutcliffe named in New Year's Honours List". The Code Club Blog. 2015-12-31. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  22. ^ "Code Club co-founder announces departure from Raspberry Pi". PC Retail. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  23. ^ "The Beam Foundation". The Charity Commission.
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