Coderina Education and Technology Foundation has entered into partnership with Google to initiate CSFirst Code Club to over 100 schools and community centres.
The CSFirst Code Club would offer trainings free of charge and facilitate CSFirst and Online Safety curriculum to over 3000 youths across Nigeria.
CSFirst curriculum, which is the main component of the code club is a specialised curriculum by Google based on the programming language, Scratch from MIT, which helps kids and youth to become equipped with 21st century coding skills, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity thereby empowering them to be able to contribute to personal and community development.
The 2019 Google CSFirst Code Club rollout is simultaneously happening in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
The curriculum is developed based on real-life and practicalthemes that include: sports, fashion, game design, storytelling, music, among others, hence, every youth can be equipped to learn and understand how…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
