Coding at Fun Palace – State Library of Queensland
Every year the State Library of Queensland hosts Fun Palace, a world wide celebration of arts and sciences, in Brisbane.
We delivered two activities at Fun Palace: “Build your first computer game” workshop & Dance Dance Revolution – Makey Makey installation.
A virtual reality adventure for kids
These September school holidays a group of Coding Kids students visited Holoverse to experience and learn about virtual reality technology. Holoverse is a virtual reality adventure arcade in Southport on the Gold Coast.
Learn Digital technologies for teachers with QCT
Join Emily de la Pena in Queensland College of Teacher’s web conference on Monday 7 November as she demonstrates some of the ways she is helping Queensland teachers and students develop skills required in the new Digital Technologies curriculum. Find out how Emily and her team are supporting the next generation of coders, creators, innovators and change makers.
MicroMakers Hackathon Day
The MicroMakers II Hackathon Day concluded the six-week program at Bulimba State School. Technologies that were used included: Scratch, MaKey MaKey, mBot, Tinkercad and 3D printing. Find out about the interesting projects that the students developed.
Free holiday tech events for kids
Engage children with fun tech activities where they can learn about how technology can be used as a tool to create fun games, helpful robots and innovate, with the potential of making an impact to our community.
Tech Connection: an interactive tech workshop for seniors
Tech Connection is an interactive tech workshop for seniors to learn about how to make the most out of going online. Add new skills and experiences to your life. Our friendly, trained instructors are supportive and patient and have years of training children and adults…
Make a creative Father’s Day e-card coding in Scratch
Here’s a fun and creative project for Father’s Day. Build your own e-card to give to your Dad. This is a great idea if you and your dad are into coding and technology.
10 year olds pitch business ideas to Shark Tank Shark
Introducing and encouraging an entrepreneurial pathway as an alternative to an academic or apprentice pathway is great way to teach children that there are many paths to living life, achieving life goals and making a difference in the world.
Our Teaching Philosophy
Why do we do what we do? We want to develop children who are:
- Engaged, curious, and playful
- Creative
- Empowered, and informed
5 principles of learning to code
Learning to code involves learning an approach to problem solving where we break down complex problems into a series of smaller, achievable problems to solve and use trial and error to identify a suitable solution to each problem. Our problem solving approach requires resilience and a delicate balance of being methodical and creative.