Creative Coding - O'ahu

Aloha,

Island parents,

It's been a while since we had a physical class on O'ahu (Oh, the memories!) but we're still teaching online, and I wanted to say a special Mahalo to all of you at the Kailua Homeschool Center!

Thank you for supporting us through the transition to online, with our Beta Zoom classes in Jan 2019.

Who knew we were such trendsetters, eh? You drove us crazy with your "non-virtual backgrounds" showing beautiful weather outside your windows, but it was a lot of fun, and proved to us that teaching coding online works just as well, in some ways, than being there in person.

Mahalo nui loa!

Still, we miss you SO MUCH! Here are a couple of pictures from our very first summer camp in Honolulu. These kids are a little more grown up now! The gecko too, I presume.

For those of you who are missing out and would like to join us online, all you need is the internet, a computer, and a gecko. Or a mouse, your choice.

For our current students and parents: Thank you for supporting your kids with our online Coding Clubs and 1-on-1 tutoring sessions. We love seeing them every week, and we SO appreciate you trusting us to be part of their ongoing social, emotional, and intellectual development.

Thank you for supporting our local teachers, and our small family-owned "business, " which is truly a labor of love. (Seriously! If it were just a business we would've had to shut down months ago! We join you in supporting our teachers financially as best we can.)

As I reflect back on what has been THE WEIRDEST year out of the 7 years that I've been teaching kids to code, I reflect on how the need to stay safe and do this online hasn't really changed the key thing. And it's the reason the most tech-savvy Seattle parents keep sending us their children to educate.

It's the fun. Kids are still kids, even when they're online. They want to talk to EACH OTHER, and PLAY TOGETHER. We create that supportive space for girls and boys to be kids, while they're learning. We give them tools, suggestions, and help, and monitor their emotional needs as they go. They learn coding almost by default.

Sure, over the weeks and years in our classes, they do become expert coders. Because we teach real coding, with all the guesswork, debugging, and "Eureka" moments that entails. But this learning is really just the byproduct of the fun.

If you had walked into a "show and tell" session last year in one of our physical classrooms last fall, (at Queen Anne Elementary, Magnolia, View Ridge, Open Window, or any others), and compared that to our online "show and tell" sessions via we**am, you'd see kids showing the IDENTICAL feelings of pride and joy in both places.

There's no feeling quite like it: The feeling of success in making something that's truly your own. That works. That is good. That other kids admire.

AND there's no feeling quite like being a teacher or parent of a student who's done something difficult, that they're really proud of.

So, THANK YOU for supporting your kids through this ongoing "home school experiment." They're going to be OK. And thank you for supporting our local teachers!

And thank you in advance for telling your friends about us. We live to serve. Please pass the word.

- Eric Fredrickson
Founder/Teacher/Dad, Creative Coding 4 Kids

https://www.creativecoding.com

A friendly reminder that due to Family Promise event at the St. Christopher's Church, we won't be having drop in classes this weekend or next (8/26). We hope you will join us at our next drop in class on September 2nd! You can pre-register on our website to save a spot, or drop in if the opportunity comes. Please visit www.creativecoding.com/hawaii for more information!

Creative Coding Teaching Kids the Joy of Coding A full week of creativity and fun! Whether it’s your first time, your fifth, or your fifteenth, these week-long day camps are always a blast. Work on one big project, or start a new one each day; either way, every student will have a great time making new friends and learning new coding techniques.

101 coding is fun!

Looks like next weeks Summer coding Camp in Kailua is shaping up to be great fun!
Registration is still open! Join Us!

Creative Coding Hawaii

Code your own summer fun! At Creative Coding your child's imagination becomes creation in our exciting and enriching summer camps. We'll teach you how to code, so you can design your own games with good guys, bad guys, levels, upgrades, plot twists, scene changes -- your imagination is the limit! Register today to get the week you want!

www.creativecoding4kids.com

Ages 8-12, others by permission
Location: St. Christopher's Church in Kailua
Military and Sibling discounts available, in addition to our "pay what you can" Scholarship Policy.
For available dates, please visit our website, or see the calendar in the comments.

Honolulu Aloha Honolulu parents! Creative Coding 4 kids teaches kids the joy of coding by helping them write their own custom computer games!