BT: Code a Cake

Rowdy

Agency:

Analog Folk

Directors:

Alice Loveday and Max Halstead

Producer:

Daisy Garside

Robots:

Robin Jackson

Post Production:

Will Studd

Art Director:

Ben Cote

Baker:

Beatie Heartley

Grade:

Matthew Day

Motion Control Assistant:

James Owens

Gaffer:

Luis Santos

Camera Assisant:

Toby Goodyear

Shot at:

Clapham Road Studios

Catering:

Konrad's Kitchen

BT are comitted to teaching digital skills to 10 million people through its ‘Skills for Tomorrow’ programme. The Code a Cake digital experience takes the sometimes mysterious and intimidating world of coding, and makes it accessible through the metaphor of baking a cake. Parents and children play with code that relates to ingredients and recipe steps, and then enjoy the often messy results, as robots follow the programmed instructions.

Rowdy created a real physical kitchen, with five custom-built working robots, to help young and old connect their choices of code to real world effects. On accessing the robot bakery website, parents and kids go through three parts of the kitchen and at each one they are taught a basic principle of code – sequencing, variables and repetition.

Over 100k people visited the site to start coding in the first month alone.

To try Coding your own Cake, get involved and click HERE!

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