Such an amazing achievement by two CODE4FUN students Zoe and Andrei and their team from Balmain Public School in winning STEM Video Game Challenge 2019! They competed among others from all around Australia in Y5 – Y8 “Playable Game in Scratch” category. We all are super proud of them and cannot help but share their success…
Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft, about why coding is great for kids:
‘Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.’
- Financial Review: ‘Should schools teach coding as part of the curriculum?’
- Wired: ‘Forget foreign languages and music. Teach our kids to code’
- Forbes: ‘Why Estonia has started teaching its first-graders to code’
- The Guardian: ‘Why all our kids should be taught how to code’
- Mitchel Resnick: ‘Learn to code, code to learn’
- The Guardian: ‘Young coders: what’s happening in the rest of the world?’
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook, about why coding is great for kids:
‘Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.’
- The Wall Street Journal: ‘Sorry, college grads, I probably won’t hire you’
- Los Angeles Times: ‘Want to prepare kids for the future? Teach them to code’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Linkedin’s Reid Hoffman on two realistic outcomes of teaching everyone to code’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Here’s why more than 800 Harvard students signed up for a notoriously hard computer science class’
- LinkedIn: ‘Teaching kids to code will change the world. Here’s how’
- Venture Beat: ‘Why computer science is Stanford’s top major, in two charts’
Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group, about why coding is great for kids:
‘I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!’
- Hour of code: ‘Leaders and trend-setters all agree on one thing’
- Australian Computer Society: ‘Digital technology and Australian teenagers’
- Ted: ‘Let’s teach kids to code’
- Venture Beat: ‘Will.i.am: Coding is the ‘most creative space’
- Tech Crunch: ‘Google invests $50 million in “made with code” program to get girls excited about CS’
- Business Insider Australia: ‘Meet Lyndsey Scott, The Victoria’s Secret model who codes in her free time’
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CODE4FUN Teacher Won the Global Game Jam Sydney 2019
Huge congratulations to Daniel Welsh, CODE4FUN lead coding teacher, for winning the first place at Viva League Global Game Jam Sydney 2019, the professional game development competition. The Sydney Game Jam was packed into an intense 30 hours where participants, who are generally made up of programmers, game designers, and artists, competed solo and in teams to create computer games…
CODE4FUN Students Visit UTS Magic Lab
Last week, the top 20 CODE4FUN robotics students went on a special tour to the Magic Lab at University of Technology Sydney. The Magic Lab is a pioneer and a leader conducting transdisciplinary research into strategic and disruptive innovations that will transform society in the coming decade. The Lab is home to the only PR2 robot…
CODE4FUN Students Reinvent the Resume Game
The resume as we know it may become a thing of the past thanks to the imagination and inventive skills of Sydney coding students in the CODE4FUN Christmas Coding Challenge 2018. With employers spending an average of six seconds scanning a resume, and companies like Microsoft receiving over two million applicants a year, knowing…
New NSW Creative Kids Rebate Program. Save $100 on Your Child’s Enrolment
The NSW Government is helping kids get creative with the new Creative Kids initiative. From 1st January 2019, parents of children aged 4.5 – 18 years old can apply for a voucher with a value of up to $100 per child per calendar year to put towards the cost of their child creative activities – this includes Coding! At…
CODE4FUN Students Visit Microsoft Reactor Sydney
Last week, Microsoft Reactor – the biggest Microsoft Startup Hub in the Southern Hemisphere – hosted the top 45 students of the CODE4FUN Christmas Coding Challenge. It was an incredible opportunity for our students to meet, learn and be inspired by Annie Parker, who is Microsoft’s Global Head of Startups; Dave Glover, Regional Developer Advocate;…
CODE4FUN 2018 Christmas Coding Challenge Results
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the 2018 Christmas Coding Challenge. This year we challenged our students to develop an Interactive Resume with WOW factor! We achieved a record number of entries from 282 students and the calibre of submissions was absolutely outstanding! Submissions were judged on creativity, originality, design, coding skills, animation…
CODE4FUN 2018 Christmas Coding Challenge: Code Your Own Interactive Resume
The 2018 Christmas Coding Challenge is off to a brilliant start and we’re thrilled to see the excitement and enthusiasm from students as they get started on their projects. We hope that your child will be participating in the challenge to reinforce the skills and concepts they’ve learnt in class, win awesome prizes and…
CODE4FUN Students Solving Today’s Problem Through Coding and Technology
Kids from as young as six have started shaping our world with technology, and they’re loving it. The 2018 CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge proves the next generation of children are leading the way out of the classroom and creating their own bright future. This year’s coding challenge was My First Business App Prototype, a challenge…
CODE4FUN Students Visit Google Australia
Last Thursday the top 30 students of the CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge went on an exclusive tour of one of the world’s most innovative companies – Google. Google was founded in 1998 and from the beginning, their goal has been to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible. Not just…