Teach Children Computer Coding for a Better Future

Dear donor,

CYDD organized a computer coding workshop for the Children Festival held in Abbasaga Park on Sunday August 12.

During the one day festival 100 children from ages 5.5 to 15 were introduced to computer coding with 7 volunteer trainers from CYDD “Kodlamaca” team and 14 laptop computers brought and installed in the park by the team. One coding introduction session lasted 40 minutes and one trainer controlled two children and two computers per session.

The children were introduced to algorithmic thinking through a “pop the balloon” game and were then shown the stages of the game and were given a chance to code part of it. The aim of the workshop activity was to get children interested in the making of games and not just playing the games.

The children had great fun and most of them wanted to attend the CYDD Kodlamaca Computer Coding program in a CYDD branch in the winter.

We were also happy to learn that the math grades of the computer coding program participants at school have increased at least 1 grade. Parents are now encouraging their children to enroll to the higher level courses and more demand is coming from friends who learn about their success.

This means that more computers are needed to start courses in other CYDD branches and we rely on your donations.

Thank you for believing in us and supporting our Project.

Dear donor,

KODLAMACA level 1 & 2 computer coding courses were completed in 31 ÇYDD branches in 20 different cities and we are getting ready for our summer courses.

As the KODLAMACA course is developing fast, we formed 3 administrative groups covering the Istanbul region, the Izmir region and rest of Anatolia. Istanbul and Izmir regions are leading with 10 centers with regular courses but what really excites us is the demand coming from far eastern towns of Turkey.

Ardahan Göle has 40 students all ready for a 10 day summer course on advanced coding which is a program we recently designed for high school students . We are forming volunteer trainer groups who will travel to Göle by plane or by the Orient Express, an experience in itself for our volunteer trainers.

At the same time Dikme village near Kars also has 30 village students ready for a 5 day Level 1 coding course. A different volunteer trainer group is being formed to train these village school children. Both courses are planned for the second half of July.

In the meantime Defne province of southeastern town Antakya has already completed their summer course.

We try to answer these demands with mobile volunteer trainer groups carrying  tablets from Istanbul but we would like to equip some eastern branches like Kars with laptop computers to continue regular courses in winter too.

We are looking forward to your support to be able to buy new computers to extend the Project  to these disadvantaged eastern towns.

Thank you for supporting us in our efforts to reach out to these disadvantaged young people..

Kindly yours,