Helping teenagers design apps to solve social problems

Notes from our fifth Mentor Meetup. Thanks to the lovely people at Idean UK for hosting.

We’re half way through the after school pilot. Here’s what I’ve learned.

Thanks to Adaptive Lab for hosting our fourth Mentor Meetup in July. The Meetup focused on plans for our after school pilot.

Welcome to the first Founding Supporters progress update

Notes and learnings from a hosted pop-up workshop, where children designed a job to make them happy

One of our fabulous Founding Supporters, ustwo, hosted our third Mentor Meetup on Tuesday evening.

Notes from the third Design Club Mentor Meetup

Notes and learnings from a hosted pop-up workshop

We're so thrilled that one of our mentees has won a Coolest Projects award for an app she developed through Design Club.

Design Club was one of several organisations invited to take part in a Nesta roundtable this week. Here’s what happened.

We’ve started organising Mentor Meetups. We plan to run one a month. We did one in March and one in April, both at Bethnal Green Ventures.

Some notes on a new partnership and inaugural event with Token Dad

This is a big week for Design Club. After a year of development and pilot projects, it’s time to start phase two.

Delivering a four day training programme in partnership with the British Council

Including a summary of 2017, month-by-month developments, the rough plan for 2018, and a whole bunch of people to thank :)

Key user insights into how we might create the ideal mentoring experience for Design Club

Some notes and learnings from our SDFF workshop last week

A short post, mainly saying thanks to all the people who joined the first Design Club Collective workshop

A selection of prototypes, photos, and learnings from Design Club at a special CoderDojo

Very early impact data and conclusions

Earlier this week, my daughter attended an induction afternoon at her new secondary school. This gave me an idea for a mini project.

An overview of how this standalone session worked

Notes on Design Club at Lab Live: Metropolis, and discovering a new way to play with Lego