Next generation of coders complete course with RTD

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18/07/2017

Award-winning Warrington digital agency Results Through Digital (RTD) has recently supported a group of thirteen young people through its pioneering ‘Coding Club’ programme.

The ‘Coding Club’ aims to provide participants with much-needed digital skills to improve their chances of finding future employment in the North West.

The innovative community initiative has run for three months and helped a talented group, aged between 13 and 17, learn how to implement digital marketing strategies and code websites, including sites for the “Gears Project”.

Designed by RTD, in partnership with OnSide Warrington Youth Club, the scheme aims to give children in Warrington all the necessary digital skills to move forward with coding and pursue a career in the North West’s competitive digital sector.

The Coding Club has been hailed a huge success by all participants, with children and parents commenting on the ‘rewarding’ nature of the scheme and the level of pride its given participants.

Results Through Digital CEO and Founder Jamie Wilson, said, “The students have been fantastic and shown a real maturity and passion when attending the course. They’ve learnt a great deal of technical skills in a short amount of time and their weekly coding work for the new youth club site is a proof of this.

“As a group, their confidence has also improved. Hopefully in the future, they’ll be able to use the knowledge they’ve gained with RTD and build on this to secure a role in the digital sector.

“These young people have the potential to help fill Britain’s digital skills shortage, so it’s been a pleasure to work with them. We’re looking forward to the second wave of the programme taking place later in the year.”

Dave McNicholl manages OnSide Warrington Youth Club and commented, “This has been an extremely beneficial programme for the youth club to be involved in. The young people’s digital skills and confidence have really advanced from their sessions with the team at RTD and now, they have a great appreciation on the complexities of coding.

“Their ‘graduation’ evening brought together the children and their parents; alongside the mentors from RTD. Everyone joined together to celebrate and acknowledge the young people’s achievements and the finished products.

“It was incredibly rewarding to see the children show their parents around the website they’d built and hear them speak so passionately and confidently about the process and the thought behind it. Hopefully, we can work with RTD again on similar projects in the future and instil a sense of pride in other children across Warrington.”

As part of their involvement with OnSide Warrington Youth Club, RTD also donated ten computers, to enable young people participating in the project – and future youngsters supported at the centre – learn and improve their digital skills.

Results Through Digital, has developed more than 17,000 websites and was recently named as one of the UK’s top three SEO companies. It has also been hailed as one of best digital agencies in the north of England.