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Tech Town session offers more start-up advice

The next meeting of the Croydon Tech “City” movement is a week on Thursday, March 21. The event will feature a tech panel of local technical startup experts – including Simon Bird, the founder of software company dotDigital, who will … Continue reading

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Dozen primaries sign up for Code Club afterschool lessons

Nearly a dozen local primary schools have signed up to the Croydon Code Club, an initiative backed by the Lives Not Knives youth charity group which aims to bring relevant digital training to pre-teen children – with secondary school pupils … Continue reading

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Schools can join Croydon’s Code Club: meeting, Thu, Feb 21

As the Croydon Tech City movement, first publicised on Inside Croydon last year, gathers momentum, one of its first moves is to offer a Code Club after-school club to local primaries. Code Club will teach primary school children computer programming … Continue reading

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