Clare Sutcliffe Explained

Clare Sutcliffe
Honorific Suffix:MBE
Alma Mater:Bath Spa University
Known For:Code Club
Awards:MBE 2016

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]

Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club with Linda Sandvik in 2012.[7] [8] 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. Half of the volunteers are from private sector companies.[9] The children learn how to program, build computer games and make websites. They program in Scratch, then HTML, CSS and Python.[10] [11] Sutcliffe got funding from Arm and Google.[12] Code Club went global in 2014.[13] She has provided evidence for the government on the UK's fragmented digital skills training.[14] In 2015 Sutcliffe launched CodeClubPro to better support computer science teachers.[15]

Sutcliffe led Code Club to merge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015 and was appointed executive director of communities and outreach.[16] [17] [18] [19]

In 2016 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours.[20] She was named one of Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in IT. She left the Raspberry Pi Foundation in March 2018.[21]

She was appointed the Chair of Trustees at the Beam Foundation in October 2018.[22]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Beyond Bath Spa. www.bathspa.ac.uk. en-GB. 2018-08-03. 3 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180803224206/https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/alumni/beyond-bsu/. dead.
  2. News: SPARTAN Summer 2014. Issuu. 2018-08-03. en.
  3. Web site: Brainyhacks - Clare Sutcliffe. cargocollective.com. 2018-08-03.
  4. Web site: Brainyhacks 2 - full of Spark+Mettle - Pixelgroup Pixelgroup. www.pixelgroup.co.uk. en. 2018-08-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804014319/http://www.pixelgroup.co.uk/blog/brainyhacks2/. 2018-08-04. dead.
  5. News: Empowering people to fulfil their potential at work. NClarkson. 2018-01-11. Virgin. 2018-08-03. en.
  6. News: Clare Sutcliffe TEDxBrighton. TEDxBrighton. 2018-08-03. en-GB. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804014032/https://tedxbrighton.com/speakers/clare-sutcliffe. 2018-08-04. dead.
  7. News: Coding for kids: schoolchildren learn computer programming. Salter. Jessica. Daily Telegraph. 2013-11-23. 2018-08-03. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  8. News: Coding comes to primary schools. 2012-04-17. BBC News. 2018-08-03. en-GB.
  9. News: Future Proofing Today's Students Against Tomorrow's Digital Skills Gap. 2016-05-12. HuffPost UK. 2018-08-03. en-GB.
  10. News: Code Club - Changing schools by making computing finally fun - The Next Billion. 2013-09-05. The Next Billion. 2018-08-03. en-US. 4 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804124454/https://thenextbillion.global/globally-spotted-code-club-changing-school-by-making-computing-finally-fun/. dead.
  11. Web site: An interview with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-founder of Code Club CAUSE4. www.cause4.co.uk. en-US. 2018-08-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804045716/http://www.cause4.co.uk/2014/11/an-interview-with-clare-sutcliffe-co-founder-of-code-club/. 2018-08-04. dead.
  12. Web site: 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. en. 2018-08-03.
  13. News: Clare Sutcliffe on helping kids learn to code. Creative Bloq. 2018-08-03. EN-GB.
  14. Web site: Lords Committee asks how to join up 'fragmented' digital skills teaching. UK Parliament. en. 2018-08-03.
  15. Web site: Q&A with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-Founder & CEO of Code Club - Viewpoint - careers advice blogViewpoint – careers advice blog. social.hays.com. en. 2018-08-03.
  16. News: Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.'s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding. TechCrunch. 2018-08-03. en-US.
  17. Web site: Innovate My School - Clare Sutcliffe. www.innovatemyschool.com. en-gb. 2018-08-03.
  18. Web site: 13. Clare Sutcliffe, executive director, communities and outreach, Raspberry Pi Foundation - The 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2017. www.computerweekly.com. en. 2018-08-03.
  19. News: Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi. 2015-11-03. Raspberry Pi. 2018-08-03. en-GB.
  20. News: Clare Sutcliffe named in New Year's Honours List. 2015-12-31. The Code Club Blog. 2018-08-03. en-US.
  21. News: Code Club co-founder announces departure from Raspberry Pi. PC Retail. 2018-08-03. en-us.
  22. Web site: The Beam Foundation . The Charity Commission.

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