Coco Coders: Elizabeth Tweedale’s Visionary Approach to Tech Education for Kids
The world is changing at lightning speed, and in order to keep up, education as we know it needs to include new skills beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic. While these traditional subjects still hold great value, technological advancements have demonstrated a growing need for knowledge in other areas, like coding. Understanding this need, Elizabeth Tweedale founded Coco Coders, an online coding school for children aged 6-12.
With a mission to help prepare kids for a successful future, Coco Coders offers an award-winning curriculum that teaches kids how to code while developing other core skills such as creativity, communication, and collaboration. For Tweedale, the journey to creating Coco Coders was propelled by her experiences and brought to life by her background and knowledge in the tech space.
For Tweedale, entrepreneurship started early on. She fondly recalls her first business, a friendship bracelet-making business where she taught her friends how to make the bracelets they so desperately wanted and then had them pay her a small amount to buy them from her. “My first business is probably still the most viral business model I’ve come up with thus far. By providing the supplies and educating my friends on how to make these bracelets themselves, I cut out all labor costs (i.e., my own time). They would then teach their friends, siblings, cousins, and so on how to make them, buying more and more string from my supply and giving me an extremely healthy profit margin.”