We are very proud of Max Forbes, a CODE4FUN alumnus, who won the Northern Beaches Youth Volunteer of the Year award! As a CODE4FUN student, Max always has been showing his passion and dedication to coding and computer science. We’re absolutely thrilled to witness how he continues to pursue his passion, while generously sharing his…
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 students meet Australian of the year Michelle Simmons and learn about Quantum Computer
A huge Thank You to the Australian of the year Michelle Simmons, Alison Taylor, Gabrielle Green and all the team at the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology UNSW for inviting CODE4FUN students to visit, learn and explore one of the best Quantum Computer Research Centres in the world. What an exceptional opportunity the CQC2T Team…
CODE4FUN students’ success in Australian STEM Video Game Coding Challenge 2021
Huge congratulations go to three CODE4FUN’s students Nico, Luca, and Everest for their outstanding achievement in Australian STEM Video Game Challenge 2021. Two projects, created by these talented game developers, reached Semi-Finals, which is very exciting. We all are super proud of these young programmers and cannot help but share their success with the…
CODE4FUN student Zander Cheng launches his first iPhone app on Apple App Store
Hi everyone, my name is Zander. I am 12 years old, and I have just launched my very first game on the Apple App Store. You can play it on your iPhone or iPad, it costs $1.49. The game is a 3D geometric puzzle with 20 levels, so I hope you enjoy solving it!…
CODE4FUN Students Won Australian STEM Video Game Coding Challenge 2019
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…
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;…