Inclusively inspiring the tech innovators of the future!

Welcome to our?brand new?newsletter, and welcome to our world of exciting, interactive, coding-themed theatre-in-education – designed to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future! Before we delve into what we’ve been up to (and a fantastic school freebie on June 16!), here’s a quick reminder about our mission…

We partner with schools and businesses to take 5-9-year-olds on fun, engaging, exciting coding adventures which capture their creative imaginations. We use positive, inclusive role models to inspire?all?children around STEM subjects, everything’s aligned to the computing?curriculum?and we incorporate real world themes, like healthy eating. Our mission is to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future, so one day they can solve the world’s biggest challenges.

We’d love you or your business to get involved! Read on to find out what we’re all about, and how you can support schools – with sponsorship, an annual subscription or by helping them to access our shows for FREE on our? Bupa Coding Days!

‘Professor’ Trice and Al the Robot

A peek inside an exciting Coding Adventure

Wondering what our Coding Adventures involve? Wonder no more! In a nutshell, each one includes a 30-minute streamed show featuring ‘Professor’ Trice and Al the Robot, followed by a series of fun, experiential follow-up activities to cement the learning.

It’s all designed for children aged?5-9, and?can be run as a half or full day event. We provide full?guidance,?lesson plans and printable resources and schools don’t necessarily need computers!

• Find out more: Coding Adventures
• Find out more: business sponsorship

Get involved in our fabulous FREE Bupa Coding Day!

We’re over the moon that our?Bupa collaboration continues to allow us to offer?FREE Bupa Coding Days for all UK primary schools three times a year!

Anyone can nominate a school to get our Healthy Lunch-Bot Coding Adventure for free on the day. You can also sign up as a volunteer and help us inspire the tech innovators of the future!

Join us on June 16 for the next?one, and?enjoy some delicious coding during Healthy Eating Week.

• Sign up
• Read: An exciting adventure
• Watch: Anyone can volunteer

Supporting other women in STEM: keynote speech at everywoman Tech Forum

Our inspiring founder and Chief Coding Adventurer, Jeni Trice, recently took to the? everywoman ?virtual stage during their Early Careers Day event, to talk about how supporting other women in STEM has supercharged her career AND theirs!

She encouraged the audience to “highlight other fabulous women around you, turn up their light, be the change yourselves, and support other women in STEM – it’s a win-win-win, and you might be surprised by the effect it has on you!”

• Watch: keynote speech
• Read: transcript

What business sponsors say…

“The world really would be a better place if everyone could code, and if we can inspire children into a career in?technology?we’ll have achieved our aim.”?Diana Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer, Bupa

“I think Get with the Program is amazing – it’s a great way to get kids excited about coding. It’s great to see how much fun the kids are having – they love taking part, they love everything about it! This really does show how forward-thinking Schroders is.”?Sophia Blakeway, Operations Manager, Schroders

What volunteers say…

"Great day supporting a primary school delivering the Bupa Coding Day Healthy Lunch-Bot Coding Adventure. Fun was had by all and there definitely were some budding future Bupa stars among them!”?Richard Bold, Bupa Coding Day volunteer

“I fully enjoyed working with the staff and the children, they all were very motivated to take part and we set little tasks for them to figure out on the day once they had established the basics of coding.”?Lindsay Kirton, Bupa Coding Day volunteer

NEW: Subscribe for Coding Adventures on demand!

Get(ting) with the Program just got even easier, because?schools?can now access?ALL of?our Coding Adventures?on demand?with an annual subscription.?Gifting this to a school is also a wonderful way for you or your business to support a local school and get involved.

So why purchase one show from ￡300+VAT when you can have them all for just ￡375+VAT? What a bargain!

• Find out more: subscription

A huge thank you to? Crowd ?for choosing us to receive their ten year anniversary prize so we could get our newsletter up and running.

You’ve been fantastic to work with!

Huge thanks also to? Lara Gee ?at Creative Seed Communications for her brilliant creative direction, copywriting and communications.

We love what you do!

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