Mission Encodeable

For many students (Mission Encodeable’s founders included), exam season is just around the corner. Whether it’s GCSEs, A-levels, or university exams, it’s time to start thinking about revision.

🖊️ In this popular blog post from last year, Anna shares some of her revision tips and tricks from a student perspective: https://missionencodeable.com/blog/revision-tips-and-tricks

If you’d like to develop your coding skills before your exams then make sure to take a look at Mission Encodeable’s free tutorials. From both of us at Mission Encodeable, good luck with your revision and in your exams! 🍀

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on another amazing year for Mission Encodeable! Users from 155 countries across all seven continents engaged with our platform this year. Here are some of our favourite moments.

In January, we spoke to some of our users in two focus groups, for students and teachers. 👨‍🎓 It was great to hear their perspectives on what we’re doing well, and to get some ideas for future development.

In March, we closed out the first series of the Inside Tech Careers podcast. 🎤 At this point, being students, we were all too aware that exam season was just around the corner - Anna shared some of her top revision tips and tricks for students in a post on the Mission Encodeable blog.

The rest of March, April and May were spent cracking on with revision for our own A-level exams, including Computer Science. 📚 As students, we understand the challenges that students face, especially in terms of preparing for exams - because we’re facing them too!

In May, we shared our perspectives as students on the future of GCSE Computer Science, amidst the Curriculum and Assessment Review. We argued that the core structure and content of GCSE Computer Science works well and provides a strong foundation for future study. The main areas of improvement are delivery and assessment: we think all exam boards should offer an onscreen programming exam, and that teachers need more support to deliver the subject in a way that is more engaging, accessible and inclusive.

June’s spell of sunny weather prompted us to bring back our Summer Coding Challenges, which reached more students than ever before - helping them to practise their coding skills in a seasonally themed way. We finished our A-level exams, having sat 20 of them between us with a total assessment time of 40 hours.

In July, we attended the Festival of Computing at Bromsgrove School, where we had an inspiring day of conversations with teachers and other organisations.

September saw us attend PyCon where we delivered a workshop for young people - teaching them to code a program to notify them when the ISS is above! 🛰️ We used this as an opportunity to launch our new course all about using APIs in Python. To cap off the month, we began studying our undergraduate degrees in Computer Science.

October brought us back to Bromsgrove School where we delivered a workshop at the CAS Conference about how to make coding lessons more engaging. We then spent the rest of the day speaking to teachers, together on the stand of our excellent partners Craig ‘n’ Dave.

To wrap up the year, we brought back our Christmas Coding Challenges in December for the third year running. 🎄 Finally, we revealed our first sponsor, Pearson, who’ll be supporting us through the new year so we can continue our work.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout 2025. We’re looking forward to inspiring even more future computer scientists together with you in 2026!

At Mission Encodeable, we’re very proud to have almost 50 projects in our free Python Fundamentals course. Every single one is designed to be relevant and engaging for students.

With no registration or accounts required, teachers are using these projects with their students in all sorts of ways - including for in-class activities, extensions and homework tasks.

Our student progress tracker is perfect for keeping track of which projects students have completed, and it’s free to download on our teachers’ page, alongside several other resources and guidance. You can find it here: https://missionencodeable.com/teachers