Mental Health Awareness Week 2026
It’s mental health week, and we here at The Code Zone wanted to talk about how we think clubs and communities can be helpful in maintaining a good mental health!
It’s mental health week, and we here at The Code Zone wanted to talk about how we think clubs and communities can be helpful in maintaining a good mental health!
Forming community
Our sessions in both our IRL settings and online allow our members to form small communities and friendships.
This allows them to have a regular like-minded group of people to share time and interests with!
Support from expert mentors
With all our sessions we have our STEM certified mentors, who receive regular training on how to take action when it comes to the varying mental needs of every member.
So we make sure to try our best to provide a kind, welcoming, and safe environment to all who come along!
Accessible from anywhere
We overall think that joining a club is an excellent way to nurture our mental health, if you think so too, come along to one of our sessions either online or in person!
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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