Supporting young people to develop digital and employability skills through exploring social action and tech careers.
Apps for Good and The Hg Foundation have formed a three-year partnership to launch the App for Social Action programme. This will be an innovative app-development course, mapped to the computing curriculums across the UK. It’s delivered by teachers over seven sessions, with the opportunity to interact with industry volunteers.
The programme will reach up to 24,000 state school students aged 11-14 in 600 schools across the UK - the largest reach of any of the Foundation’s partnerships to date. In addition, part of The Hg Foundation’s grant will support an evaluation of the programme, enabling further development and improvements for greater impact in the future.
Apps for Good, an organisation founded in 2010, provides free tech innovation courses to schools and gives teachers ready-made education content, so young people from all backgrounds can develop digital and essential skills to create a brighter future through technology. Almost 253,000 students have now benefited from Apps for Good courses since its inception, with the majority of young people studying in schools facing challenging circumstances.
“Before doing this course , I thought I was going to take something like history and art for my GCSEs, more of those types of things. But after this course I started feeling like a real enjoyment for coding. Like, you know how to do it. You know how to teach everyone and thinking I might want to do computer science, and I'm definitely using it."
“Being able to essentially make a difference and affect the world with just a simple app. Being given that opportunity I think was really great - not for just us, but because we can help everyone.”
