Coding education is fun. For girls in Utah County, it’s also an early exposure to the business world. The Daily Herald discusses this in a recent article titled “Girl Code: Utah County girls learn coding, share products with execs.”
Karissa Neely of the Daily Herald writes, “It takes multiple lines of computer code to make even the simplest animation, game, website or story-board, but the girls at InsideSales.com’s first-ever coding camp tackled it all. The camp lasted from Tuesday to Friday, but the 37 girls, ages 7-14, were not hunched over computers the whole time at the InsideSales offices in south Provo. There was plenty of talk about code, but there was almost just as much time devoted to building teams and learning how to work together. In one such activity, the girls were broken up into small groups and given the same materials — tape, straws, cardboard, etc. — and told to create a holder that would protect a raw egg from cracking when dropped from a roof. Two of the six groups were actually successful in protecting their egg. ‘For all the groups, we saw that it really helped them see how good teams work together and collaborate,’ said Michael Plante, vice president of marketing at InsideSales. The girls, coming from all over Utah County, and even a bit beyond, needed those skills to do their final projects that were the culmination of the week’s efforts. With the coding skills they learned, 15 groups built an app, an animation, a movie, a game, or a website, and shared it Friday afternoon with their parents and InsideSales executives.”
At CodeRev Kids, we understand the need for coding education is imperative. By 2020, 1 million computing jobs will go unfilled in the United States due to a lack of appropriate preparation of our future workforce. As of right now, students are graduating from excellent universities without the ability to obtain positions that utilize their expertise, yet someone who graduates from college with a computer science degree is very likely to obtain a desirable and high earning position immediately.
In order to help give your child all the opportunities that a computer science degree will provide, we give him/her a foundation based on Computational Thinking, which encompasses a wide range of programming concepts and languages. Our lessons build upon one another and we adjust starting points to each student’s level of expertise, thus making the entire curriculum customized.
Not just are we known for being the most educational tech camp out there, we also keep the focus on having fun. Because of this, our students stay engaged while learning to blend creativity with technology.
If you think CodeRev Kids could be right for your child, check out our afterschool programs and summer camps!