Earth Day: Calling all future scientists, engineers and coders!
This Earth Day, we are celebrating 5 recent inventions that were developed with the goal of cleaning up our planet, and how they are making a difference! At the core of what kids learn in our weekly coding classes, are the skills to be future ready and we help them be amongst those pushing technologies further in the future.
A Parent’s Guide to Decoding Popular Gaming Language
It’s difficult enough to keep up with the latest video game trends, let alone the vocabulary that comes along with them! This is especially true for games like Roblox and Minecraft, which are incredibly popular with today’s young kids as well as teenagers. We’ve created a helpful guide that can help translate some of the most common terms you may hear your gamers using.
How Coding Has Impacted Worldwide Healthcare
The use of coding in the healthcare industry has been on the rise for several years. From electronic medical records to telemedicine, coding has become an essential part of modern healthcare. Here are some ways that coding is forever changing the face of Healthcare worldwide.
Coding Badges
NEW! Now your coder will earn unique badges for attending classes, completing themes, and mastering specific coding skills!
7 Ways to Beat Spring Break Boredom
While brain breaks are super important, there are still fun ways to keep your kids engaged in creative and educational activities while they take a break from hectic school schedules.
Job Hopping: Why Millennials and Gen Z Workers Don’t Sit Still
The concept of staying in one job for your entire career is no longer the norm. In fact, job hopping, or moving from one job to another frequently, has become a common practice for the Millennial and Generation Z workforce. But why are younger workers far less likely to stay in one position for more than one year?
5 Reasons Your Child Will Fall In Love With Coding
Helping your kids learn to code is not only a fun way for them to learn future-ready skills, but it will also help them build the confidence and determination to thrive no matter what life throws at them. Highly sought after skills plus the confidence and perseverance to get the job done? Now that’s a swoon-worthy match made in tech-heaven!
5 Things We Want For Kids in 2023
As parents we have a lot of hopes and dreams for our kids. While what their futures hold is ultimately up to them and the decisions they make, there are certainly ways we can positively influence them along the way! Here are some ideas for things that can help kids level up in health, happiness and future-readiness this year.
5 Ways to Prevent Learning Loss over Winter Break
It only takes kids a few days out of their normal routine to completely change the way their brains retain information, but ‘brain breaks’ are also very important and beneficial to overall brain health. So how can we balance taking advantage of a break while also preventing learning loss?
5 Reasons to Gift a Coding Class
Every holiday season has an ‘it’ toy. The one that all the kids in each age range have to have or their world will literally end as they know it. This leads to packs of panicky parents stampeding through miles of stores in the hope that they can get their hands on the popular toy before stock runs out and prices skyrocket.
Skip the rat race this year and give them a gift that is guaranteed to outlast and outperform any ‘it’ toy
Redeeming Screen Time: How to Manage Your Child’s Tech Exposure
Screen time is one of the most divisive and discussed issues in the past decade. While screen time has been both championed and heavily demonized, the real truth may be somewhere in the middle.
3 Real Life Benefits of Hybrid Skills
Being able to adapt, communicate, and solve problems in multiple ways provides students an edge in not only earning a position in industries they are passionate about, but in managing everyday life successfully. Here are 3 real life benefits of building hybrid skills.
The Importance of Technology Literacy
From the vast cornfields of Iowa to the cobbled streets of London, Coco Coders founder and CEO Elizabeth Tweedale has been setting new standards in coding education for young students. Now she’s back in the US and she brought her award winning coding curriculum for students 6-12 years old with her.
10 Reasons Your Child Needs Coding Skills
Coding is more than the high-stress keyboard smashing of blockbuster action movies that the early 90’s showcased, it’s an integral piece of many items and systems we use in our everyday lives. Coding is the language of the future, and here are ten reasons your child will benefit from learning about it now…
Preparing Kids For The Connected Future
With more than half of the planet’s population connected through at least one internet-ready device, life looks very different today than it did just a couple decades ago. So how can we prepare our kids for a future that’s sure to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen?