On the occasion of the announcement of the international initiative “Hour of Code“, launched at the global level with the aim of promoting programming among the youngest population, the first in a series of free coding workshops for children who attend first to the fourth grade of primary schools was held today in the SKIP Center of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government under the title “Towards the Hour of Code”.
At today’s workshop, students had the opportunity to learn programming skills with the help of the new Genibot programmable robot, created by Jackie Lee from the Republic of Korea. Also, at the workshop, they got to know the carious possibilities that this robot provides through performing interesting tasks: from applying the motion algorithm to repeating actions, adding sound and light effects, as well as composing music. In the second part of the programme, the primary school students were presented with an online platform for learning coding for free, established as part of the “Hour of Code” event.
In addition, today’s free workshop at the SKIP Center was organized in cooperation with Mensa and the citizens’ association UčenIQ.
The workshop also serves as an announcement of a series of free workshops which will be implemented in the last week of December, in cooperation with the Serbian-Korean Information Access Center, by the organization “Code that idea”, which recently became one of the international partners for Serbia in the organization of “Hour of Code”.