What's the big idea

Code Club is a free national after-school programme teaching computer programing skills to school kids through the creation of games, animations and websites.

Why we like Linda

Linda Sandvik is a creative technologist making computing fun and educational for kids.

She co-founded Code Club with Clare Sutcliffe after noticing a gap in pupils’ computer knowledge, the lack of skilled computer teachers, and the boring, outdated national curriculum for computer classes.

Linda and Clare love researching, experimenting, testing, and prototyping – each new Code Club project is user-tested and evaluated by kids. Similarly, Linda was involved in the Happenstance project, an experiment to explore, change and improve the ways arts organisations use technology.

Alongside Code Club, Linda has also been involved in a number of interactive installations and campaigns, such as this recent one to reduce littering in Oslo which featured a talking bin.

She was also involved in the Scouts Digital Maker Badge project, creating new digital activities for Scouts to earn their IT badge.

Linda studied Digital Media at Hyper Island in Stockholm, where she learned by experimenting, testing and collaborating with industry developers. She also holds a BSc in Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Warwick.

Follow Linda here: @hyper_linda

Follow Clare here: @ClareSutcliffe

Photo, right: Linda Sandvik. Credit: Stephen Yu. Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (image cropped)

Photo, left: Code Club website.