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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has merged with teaching initiative Code Club.

The move makes Code Club a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation, which claimed that little would change for the organisations teachers and volunteers. The Foundation added the deal would further its aim of turning people into "makers, not just consumers".


The Foundation said the deal would allow it to "diversify" its educational programmes.

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Code Club was established in 2012 to teach children aged nine to 11 how to code in languages such as Scratch, HTML, CSS and Python. Since launch, it has established move than 3,800 clubs in the UK, with 44,000 young people currently in regular attendance.


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Colligan added that Code Club's "brand and approach will continue unchanged" and that teachers would still be able to use whatever hardware or software they preferred. The Foundation will also work to develop new partnerships and launch Code Clubs in other countries around the world.

Updated 03/11/15 at 13:19: This article originally stated Raspberry Pi had purchased Code Club. The deal is in fact a partnership.