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Following the Rails Girls workshop in mid August, attendee ‘Female Disruptors’ wrote this insightful blog post….

It’s very early on a Saturday morning and a quiet street in Manchester looks a bit out of place. There is a crowd forming outside MadLab on Edge Street and they look like they mean business. Quietly checking their phones, nodding greetings to each other with a conspiratorial look knowing that they are all here for one thing — to learn how to code. Continue reading Learning how to code and why it is so important

As featured by National Coding Week, June 2016

My name is Claire Dodd, and I’m originally from West Yorkshire, but now residing in Manchester. I come from a background of working in credit control and debt collection, but I’ve always been a geek at heart.

I was introduced to the North West tech scene through attending BarCamp Blackpool, and after moving to Manchester in 2013, and being ignited by the passion of the grassroots tech community, I was part of a team who resurrected BarCamp Manchester, of which I am currently planning the third year. Continue reading Meet a National Coding Week Ambassador – Claire’s Story

We won a thing! MadLab and CodeUp have won ‘Best Partnership’ at the National Coding Week Awards.

The award is in recognition of the collaboration between MadLab and CodeUp during National Coding Week last September, in which we ran five workshops here at MadLab, to 90 people over the course of one action-packed Saturday.

You can read more about the day here. Continue reading We won a thing!