The Code Zone: Meet the Mentors behind the Magic!
We're shining a light this week on our Mentors! Read all about them including their fave pokemon!
Ahhh, Mentors. You’ve seen them around – tirelessly running clubs, fixing code, and showing off games like nobody’s business. They are a mysterious species, as although you may know their names and love what they do, can you say you really know them?
Well fear not! Here at The Code Zone, we’ve decided you all deserve to know our lovely mentors a bit better, and so we’ve made this week ‘Meet your Mentor Week’, so you can get to know some of the marvellous coding magicians who keep our clubs running and our smiles wide!
Of course, we believe the best way to get to know our mentors is through asking only the most important of questions… like, ‘What’s your favourite Pokémon?’ and ‘What’s your favourite food?’ – I’m sure you’ll agree these are the true windows into the soul for gamers like us! And maybe you’ll learn a little more about some of us too, who knows. Let’s jump straight in, shall we? (in no particular order....)
About The Code Zone Academy
Posts like this one are written by the mentors, about what members have been building. The Game Dev Academy has no fixed session time: a new build goes up every week and a child opens it whenever they are ready, with a STEM-certified mentor answering by text and video message when they get stuck.
Children build their own games rather than following a set course, starting in Scratch. Levels move down as readily as up, and staying where you are is a perfectly good outcome. Every mentor is background-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 the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
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