7 things I learned from Eddie Woo
Eddie Woo spoke at the Teacher Preview Event for World Science Festival Brisbane 2019 at the Queensland Museum. Here are the 7 things I learned from Eddie Woo: 1. Dispositions, not just skills, are a key to teaching STEM. 2. Dispositions lie underneath…
Robots are coming to Longreach!
Join Coding Kids Longreach for National Science Week 2018! The office of the Queensland Chief Scientist is hosting the inaugural STEM Pop-up in Longreach for National Science Week 2018. With over 1000 participants expected to attend, 2 days of workshops will be held across 7…
STEAM Expo 2018 at Bulimba State School
Bulimba State School is hosting its STEAM Expo on Sunday 12 August with workshops running throughout the day. After much success at the inaugural event in 2017, 2018 is setting out to be even bigger. A number of workshops will be held that day from…
National Science Week 2018
Join National Science Week with Coding Kids 11-19 August 2018 is National Science Week and Coding Kids will be running a number of workshops around Queensland. National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology and thousands of individuals – from students, to…
Hour of code
Sponsor your own Hour of Code event Between 3-9 December, 100,000s of students around the world will celebrate Computer Science Education Week by joining an Hour of Code event. It’s an opportunity for every child to learn how the technology around us works. Coding Kids…
Build your own Dance Dance Revolution game with MaKey MaKey
Coding can be a tactile project. Build your own Dance Dance Revolution game using a MaKey MaKey kit and Scratch. Start coding, build hardware and play a tactile, physical movement computer game.
How to sign up to Thunkable
In this quick tutorial, we’ll teach you how to sign up to Thunkable! We use Thunkable to build iOS and Android apps using drag and drop coding blocks. It’s a fun way for students to learn about app design and computational thinking. Students are…
Top 3 games for Scratch beginners
As I gain experience in game design and preparing lesson plans, I realise that it is actually a lot more difficult to design games for beginner level coders than for advanced level coders. Here are our 3 favourite games for Scratch beginners.
Visual-based vs. Text-based programming languages
We often get asked by people, “What are visual and text-based programming languages? What are the differences between them? Why do we as a company opt to teach kids a visual-based programming language like Scratch to begin with instead of starting them out on text-based ones?” Let us elaborate on these questions for you!
Web Development: From beginner to innovator in 12 months
What is Web Development? Web development is an umbrella term for any type of work that related to developing websites for public or private use. Some of the fundamental languages that fall beneath the umbrella of web dev are HTML, CSS and JavaScript, which can…