Clubs
Starting a coding club is a great way to help enrich your coding skills, while also
helping your community. The Atypical club framework gives you everything you need to start a cool
coding club, from lessons to reminders for your attendees. Besides the joy you get from helping
your friends, classmates, or neighbors, becoming an Atypical club leader gives you something
to brag about on your CV/Resume. So how does our framework work?
Our core philosophy to allow for the most people to develop a core coding framework is to have
a group of people interested in learning how to code teaching classes as well. As a creator of the club,
you would assemble a group of people interested in learning how to code and have everyone do a certain Atypical lesson.
Then, a week later, have this group teach this lesson to people interested in learning. This allows for a large group
of people to learn together and help each other out. So how would a framework like this work in real life?
The coding club at Hart Middle School in Pleasanton, CA learned all of its lessons from high school students
in Amador Valley High School's ACE Coding Club, which allowed high school students to teach how to code for volunteer hours.
Using the Atypical model, a group of 7 students met a week before a scheduled class at Hart Middle School to find out which lessons to do
from the Atypical website, and worked together to make the projects highlighted in the lessons. Then, they would teach at Hart, which would enrich
their new skills in XML and Java and give them the volunteer hours they needed for graduation, and help the 55 middle school attendees learn
the skills they really need to build programs for any platform. Sounds like a win-win, right?