Clare Sutcliffe MBE | |
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Alma mater | Bath Spa University |
Known for | Code Club |
Awards | MBE 2016 |
Website | claresutcliffe.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.
Sutcliffe studied graphic design at Bath Spa University. [1] [2]
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]
Clare Sutcliffe MBE | |
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Alma mater | Bath Spa University |
Known for | Code Club |
Awards | MBE 2016 |
Website | claresutcliffe.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.
Sutcliffe studied graphic design at Bath Spa University. [1] [2]
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]