Tuyva Benibo, an 8-year-old kid, won the Outstanding Animation category at the International Kids Coding Competition (IKCC), continuing a trend of young Nigerians who represent their nation with pride on a global scale. In an interview, Benibo encourages young kids to learn to code and discusses his motivation for pulling off the accomplishment. 8-year-old…
In spring 2023, the ThinkYoung Coding School, which operates coding schools for teenagers and young people in Kenya in collaboration with Boeing, plans to expand to Rwanda and Ethiopia with the goal of empowering teens and young people throughout Africa. The interactive curriculum of ThinkYoung’s bootcamp program includes coding techniques applicable to the aviation sector,…
Kenya’s information and communication technology ministry has released a coding curriculum for school children. The newest trend in schools is coding. In other parts of the world, it is taught at a lower level, and Kenya appears to be following suit. To that end, we’ve heard that Kenyan children will soon be able to take…
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has announced that robotics and coding will be added to the South African curriculum. According to the department’s recently released annual performance plan 2022/2023, full-scale implementation for Grades R through 3 and Grade 7 is planned for the academic year 2023. Robotics and coding will be piloted in other…