Coding is kids' business

Codekids offers high-quality, kid-friendly coding classes for school-aged students. The program teaches important skills including problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity and much more, all while making lessons fun.

The company has announced a brand new teaching location for its coding classes for school-aged children.

Classes aim to maximise future career opportunities for younger generations, to create more young entrepreneurs and to open their eyes to what coding can do.

Codekids was established by a team of young entrepreneurs in Perth. They decided to share their passion for coding by teaching students the skills and knowledge they need to prepare for a rapidly changing future.

A recent McKinsey Global Institute report suggested that by 2030, AI and robots could replace as much as 30% of the world’s current human labour. This trend is already in evidence in WA, with about one-third of the mine haulage truck fleet at Rio Tinto’s Pilbara mines being automated.

“To embrace this change, the Codekids team believes it is crucial to start learning coding and programming as young as Year 1,” said Codekids co-founder Shi.

Learning to code is not only about preparing for a future as a potential programmer, it’s about improving people’s all-round skills and aptitude.

“Plenty of students have little or no interest in arts and creativity but find themselves using coding to create interesting and expressive games and stories while also improving their STEM skills. On the other hand, many artistically minded students find themselves improving a lot of STEM skills such as technology and maths, skills that they may find uninteresting or difficult in school,” said Codekids co-founder and CTO Nick Berryman.

Coding classes will launch at Perth Modern School in Term 3 2021. Visit the website for more info.