Kids Code Club
- Kids Code Club Initiative
Kids Code Club
Kidscodeclub an initiative of imaginative lab is established to inspire, inculcate birth coding culture in Ghanaian children.
Imaginative Lab has put together a coding club and STEM (Science Technology Engineering Programme ) Scheme that will serve children between ages 6 and 18 in community schools in Ghana.
The target group is those in less privileged communities such as pre-urban and rural areas.Generally, a wave of computer programming is blowing over the African continent with Ghana largely lagging behind the likes of Kenya. In a technological era as this, most kids in Ghana are for example limited in their choice of video games.
This could be attributed to the fact that they are forced to play games that are made available by the people from the West who were inspired by the games developed in their own culture. However, there are games that the Ghanaian child can also be identified with. Eg, owari, ampe, pempenaa, pilolo and many more which they would like to play on the computer but are not available.
- Our role is to introduce children to these basic Programming Concepts
Professional Training and Support
Imagination/Abstraction
kids will be provided with the enabling environment to experiment with new ideas and identify new ways of learning.
Procedural Thinking
kidscode club will help children the process of design, ie. how to start with a level of idea and turn it into fully fledged project
Debugging
kids will be assisted to systemically identify potential problems or track down potential causes until they find the problem and fix it
Technological empathy
kids will be introduced to persistence and perseverance in the face of frustration when things are not working as expected.
- Providing modern coding tutorials to kids
Kids Code Club Core Values
Our Mission
To Inspire, train, incubate, and span the interest of birth coding culture in Ghanaian
Our Vision
To increase Ghanaian youth's access to learning ICT and deeper fluency in technology
Core Values
In all our actions, we strive for honesty and transparency. Decisions are guided
Accountability
we believe kids code club is the way forward in terms of giving every child an equal
- Practical Coding Tutorials for Kids
What we do
At KIDSCODE Club we support local network of volunteer teachers who run extracurricular coding sessions for children in basic primary and junior high schools in our local communities.
The coding sessions take an hour, once a week after class at registered schools, libraries and community centres. KIDSCODE Club will provide a haven promoting easy to follow coding projects which will help children learn basic computing, create interactive stories, games, animations, maths, computations, and build websites.
The enabling environment will also help them share their creations with one another using Scratch, HTML/CSS, Python, Raspberry pi and Arduino.
