Curious about coding but not sure if it’s for you? CodePrep is a one-day, introductory coding workshop for parent-child and buddy pairs with zero background to tryout coding together! This holiday, grab your child/friend and learn to code through unplugged games and lots of hands-on activities. CodePrep is a fun-packed taster programme to give you a feel for what problem-solving with coding entails and an opportunity to bond over trying something new together.

The Friday workshops are suitable for families with primary school children.

What will I be doing?

Through games, hands-on activities and paired challenges, you will be guided to solve problems creatively using computational thinking and coding skills.

Full schedule as below:

10am-10.30am: Icebreakers 

10.30am-11.00am: Team activity - computational thinking

11.00am-12.30pm: Hands-on - Create your own pet in Scratch

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch break

1.30pm-3.30pm: Parent-child paired programming challenge

3.30pm-4pm: Recap and closing

Case Study: Family Social Innovation Makerthon in Development Bank of Singapore, Shanghai

Code for Asia’s one-day Family Makerthon workshop conducted in DBS, Shanghai exposed parents and children to how they can apply coding to solve silver generation challenges. We started by inviting participants to share their ideas for challenges faced by their grandparents, followed by a demonstration of coding a popular Chinese series of the time - 中国诗词大会 (Chinese Poetry Conference) - into a Scratch quiz game, allowing them to learn by doing. One of our participating family eventually emerged as winner in the overall competition series and was able to come to Singapore to visit the local social innovation initiatives.

Case Study: Global Issues Network in Hong Kong Academy

In Hong Kong, middle school kids from around Asia who had gathered for the Global Issues Network at Hong Kong Academy was able to construct their own “minimal tree spanning” algorithms unknowingly through an unplugged group activity! In this exercise, students had to figure out the minimum number of steps needed to connect all the houses in a city, learning to decompose problems and designing algorithms in the process.

What happens after CodePrep?

Keen to continue coding after CodePrep? Contact us for a CodePrep-only discount code for our December bootcamp programmes (15-25h options available)!

Promotions

• Sign up with a sibling/friend/parent for the special prize of $179 each (U.P. $199)!

Got Questions?

• Email us hello[at]codefor.asia
• Or WhatsApp +65 81833039

Note

We reserve the right to cancel the event if a minimum participation count is not met. In the unlikely occurrence that any of our public events have to be cancelled or postponed due to circumstances beyond the control of Code for Asia, fees paid will be refundable less administrative costs levied by the platform. Otherwise, you may retain your ticket reference for our future events.

We strongly recommend that you come with your own laptops --- 1 per pair. If you have any difficulties with this, please do not hesitate to get in touch so we can make the relevant equipment arrangements for you as well.