Happy STEM Day 2025!
November 8th is STEM Day, a celebration of all things Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics! Read on to find out more about all things STEM, and how this links to The Code Zone...
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Well, not quite. In reality STEM is stronger than ever, and even has its own national day! The 8th of November!
STEM-Certified Mentors
Obviously you hear us mention our STEM certified mentors all the time (We’re very proud) so we naturally are going to be constantly working to promote knowledge pertaining to those areas!
Our mentors are always encouraging our members to get excited about tech, always happy and excited to talk about and teach the latest trends within technology. We believe it’s a brilliant idea to know what technology is around and why it works because these are the things that everybody has to interact with in their day to day lives.
Coding for Everyone
We also believe that coding should be accessible to all, this is why we provide so many different options for both our live sessions and our Game Dev Academy!
Even a base level of coding knowledge will help in your day to day life, maybe you have an option to program your heating: Understanding what “IF TEMP < 12 HEAT UNTIL TEMP > 20” is actually doing will make using these pieces of technology so much easier in the long term!
Ready to boost your child's STEM related skills?
If you want to instill a good foundation of STEM skills within yourself or your child, get in touch with us and we’ll see how best we can help you!
About The Code Zone
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16. Live online clubs are open to children anywhere in the UK, and our in-person clubs run across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Over 1,000 children are enrolled.
A live club is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor.
Children build their own games rather than working through a set course, and levels move down as readily as up so the work always fits. More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
Most children start in Scratch or MakeCode and move to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. Mentors write a note on every child after every session, so we know when somebody is ready to move up or would rather stay put. Nothing is forced.
In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, and in 2026 we were ranked second in the UK in Club Hub UK’s Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers, scored by five independent judges on safeguarding, inclusivity and community impact. Every mentor is DBS-checked and STEM-certified.
More like this
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
