January, 2019 | Ethical Marketing News

British Youth Council Call for UK Young Ambassadors Launched

January 2, 2019December 31, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

The British Youth Council has launched a new call for young people to put themselves forward to be the next cohort of UK Young Ambassadors for the European Structured Dialogue. Through this programme young people from across the four nations of the UK can represent the views of their peers to UK and European youth policy makers. UK Young Ambassadors will be in post for 18 months to follow the next cycle of the process, undertaking consultations with young people across the UK and feeding into European policy conferences. “I’ve…

Code.org and Amazon Kick Off Hour of Code: Dance Party to Introduce One Million Girls to Coding

January 2, 2019December 28, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Amazon and Code.org today introduced Hour of Code: Dance Party – an online gamified tutorial that aims to teach basic coding skills to more than one million young girls during the first week of December and will continue to reach millions more kids throughout 2019. To help raise awareness of the value of coding at schools around the world, over 1,000 Amazon employees are volunteering at hundreds of Hour of Code events, from San Luis Obispo, California, to Edisto Island, South Carolina, to Tokyo, Japan, and Gdansk, Poland. Code.org’s new…