Congratulations for another good result from KodeKiddo kiddos in Bebras Challenge USA!!!
Bebras is an international initiative aiming to promote Informatics (Computer Science, or Computing) and computational thinking among school students. It is the basis for coding and programming.
The Bebras Computing Challenge is organized in over 30 countries and designed to get students from all over the world excited about computing.
Each participant gets 45 minutes to answer 15 multiple-choice questions that focus on computational and logical thinking.
The challenges were delivered in KodeKiddo classes between Nov 4-18, 2019.
The kiddos did very well!!
Over 700 KodeKiddo students participated in this competition from more than 15 KodeKiddo centers as well as at the schools that have partnership with KodeKiddo for their coding program.
On average in most of the categories, our results are higher than the average from overall California and US participants.
24 kiddos got “Best in School” achievement.
Extra thumbs up for these kiddos who got the Best in School!!!
All the kiddos who participated in this event get a certificate from the Bebras Challenge US Committee. Example of the Certificate for one of our kiddos who got the perfect score. Good job Javelyn!
All KodeKiddo participants certificates and results can be downloaded here:
The best way to teach kids about machine learning is through hands-on experiences, and by making it fun using examples close to their interests. What is machine learning? We probably use machine-learning systems every day without even knowing it. The technology gives us spam filters, our Facebook News Feeds, digital assistants, search engines, online shopping recommendations, and more. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence which lets computer systems to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead.
While computers historically relied on people to tell them what to do and how to react, developers are creating machines that are able to learn. This means the robots can make their own decisions, giving them artificial intelligence.
To introduce this concept to children, during the Holiday Program and extra curricular program, KodeKiddo held a course with the topic of “Machine Learning for Kids” for middle school and high school kiddos. Each project is done in Scratch, a widely used educational coding platform, and using IBM Cloud services to access Watson Assistant, IBM’s Machine Learning system. This course goes through step-by-step guide to create several programs using concepts of machine learning. Samples of the projects are such a program which makes a character that smiles if you say nice things to it and cries if you insult it, recognizes different hand positions when playing rock, paper, scissors, or makes recommendations based on certain data entered.
In this course, the kiddos learned the basic concepts of machine learning and implemented them in their coding to understand how machine learning can make their programs work better. In the first steps, they gathered data samples to train the program. After that, they created User Interface (UI) using Scratch and incorporate the additional command blocks in Scratch for the implementation of machine learning tasks, including using APIs from IBM Watson.
In simple terms, here are the three steps:
Collect examples of things you want to be able to recognise
Use the examples to train a computer to be able to recognise them
Make a game in Scratch that uses the computer’s ability to recognise them
At the end of the program, the kiddos worked in a team to create one personal project using the concepts they learned and present it to the parents. See some examples below.
These kiddos are part of KodeKiddo extracurricular coding program at @LEC Laurensia Enrichment Center in Santa Laurensia school, Alam Sutera. They learned how to train simple machine-learning models and use them to play games and complete interactive projects in Scratch.
With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence technology around us, even kiddos should learn this machine learning concept earlier!
KodeKiddo ingin memberikan ucapan selamat kepada murid-murid yang telah berpartisipasi dalam NCSS Challenge.
Apa itu NCSS Challenge? NCSS Challenge adalah kompetisi computer science yang ditujukan kepada anak-anak yang diselenggarakan oleh Grok Learning yang juga berkolaborasi dengan University of Sydney, dan Australian Computing Academy dan telah diikuti lebih dari 17.000 murid di dari seluruh dunia.
Kompetisi ini berlangsung selama 5 minggu, dengan tujuan agar murid-murid dapat belajar bahasa pemrograman Blockly dan Python dengan menyelesaikan soal-soal yang diberikan dalam kompetisi ini. 124 murid KodeKiddo dari 13 KodeKiddo centers di seluruh Indonesia berpartisipasi di kompetisi.
Hasil dari kompetisi ini sudah di rilis oleh tim Grok Learning dan banyak murid-murid dari KodeKiddo mendapatkan hasil yang sangat memuaskan. 27 murid KodeKiddo mendapatkan nilai yang sempurna dan masuk kedalam peringkat ter-atas dalam kompetisi ini.
Mempunyai kemampuan dalam bidang Computer Science atau Teknik Informatika sangat bermanfaat. Computer Science saat ini banyak di terapkan di banyak bidang seperti contohnya menyembuhkan kanker, dan mengatasi pemanasan global. Kami melilhat banyak anak-anak yang sangat antusias dalam mempelajari Computer Science ini dan kami berharap ini dapat memberikan dampak positif kepada masa depan mereka.
Mempunyai kemampuan dalam bidang Computer Science atau yang sering kita sebut sebagai Teknik Informatika sangat bermanfaat. Computer Science banyak di terapkan ke dalam banyak bidang seperti contohnya menyembuhkan kanker, mengatasi global warming, dan sebagainya. Melihat murid-murid berprestasi ini sangat membanggakan dan sangat memberikan dampak positif terhadap anak yang masih berumur sangat muda, kami berharap keberhasilan mereka dapat menjadi sebuah motivasi untuk anak-anak lain dalam mempelajari Computer Science.
Selama kompetisi ini kami dari KodeKiddo team mendampingi anak-anak agar mereka dapat termotivasi dan tetap semangat dalam mengerjakan soal-soal yang diberikan. Kami juga membimbing mereka agar dapat mengerjakan soal-soal tersebut dan menyelesaikan kompetisi yang berlangsung selama 5 minggu ini.
Kami dari tim KodeKiddo sangat bangga terhadap murid-murid yang telah mengikuti kompetisi ini dengan semangat. Kami juga berharap dengan mengikuti kompetisi ini anak-anak dapat lebih termotivasi, dan lebih bersemangat dalam mempelajari ilmu Computer Science ini.
Mau ikutan? Ayuk bergabung dengan KodeKiddo segera.
Mencari kegiatan waktu luang yang bermanfaat bagi anak-anak,
memang menjadi sesuatu yang gampang-gampang susah bagi orang tua. Banyak yang
menginginkan agar kegiatan tersebut, selain menambah teman di luar sekolah,
memberikan kesenangan juga dapat memberikan tambahan pengetahuan bagi sang
anak. KodeKiddo hadir untuk memberikan solusi kegiatan luar sekolah yang juga
akan menambah keahlian pesertanya dalam hal coding.
Beberapa waktu yang lalu, bertempat di Ruang Komunal Facebook,
Jakarta, KodeKiddo mengadakan KiddoHack sebuah ajang mini hackathon yang
merupakan ajang untuk mengembangkan kemampuan coding. Selain itu, kemampuan
kerja sama juga diasah dalam ajang ini karena ada dua orang dalam satu tim,
yang diharapkan menyelesaikan tugas yang diberikan.
Dalam proses pengerjaannya, peserta dapat berkonsultasi dengan para mentor yang berkeliling selama hackathon berlangsung. Selain mendatangkan mentor yang mumpuni dari berbagai perusahaan teknologi dan start-up, KiddoHack kali ini bekerja sama dengan Generation Girls, sebuah start up yang memiliki tujuan untuk memperkenalkan coding dan hal-hal yang terkait dengan teknologi komputasi, kepada perempuan sejak usia dini.
KiddoHack ini terbagi atas 4 kelompok kelas ini dan tiap
kelompok mendapatkan tugas yang berbeda-beda. Hanya saja, tujuannya tetap sama,
membuat games dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang disediakan. Makin tinggi kelas peserta, maka makin sulit
game yang harus dibuat serta makin rumit aplikasi yang digunakan. Contohnya
peserta kelas 2-4 dan 5-6 menggunakan aplikasi Scratch atau Minecraft;
sedangkan peserta dengan grade tertinggi, yaitu kelas 10 – 12 dapat memilih 3
aplikasi dalam pengerjaannya dapat memilih menggunakan MIT App Inventor, HTML
atau Android Studio. Ada 3 tema besar yang ditawarkan, yaitu healthy mind
and body, climate warrior,
dan global citizen.
Uniknya, games ini menyelipkan unsur-unsur kepedulian kepada
lingkungan sekitar dalam games yang dibuat. Contohnya bagi yang memilih tema climate
warrior membuat game yang mengatur pemain mendapatkan poin setiap berhasil menanam dan memelihara sejumlah
pohon.
Selain
ajang berkompetisi, KiddoHack ini menjadi ajang showcase bagi anak dan
orangtua yang berminat mengikuti kursus di KodeKiddo. Lewat acara ini, calon
peserta bisa mendapatkan gambaran tentang bagaimana dan apa jenis kursus yang
ditawarkan KodeKiddo.
The NCSS Challenge is a programming competition using Blockly and Python open for all school students from all of the countries. The competition started on Monday 29th July, 2019 and running for about 5 weeks, when the kiddos completed a set of challenges every week.
Why Learn and Do Coding Competition?
Programming (also known as coding) is how sites like Facebook and apps like Instagram are made. Knowing how to program is like having a computing super power. The NCSS Challenge teaches students to code in Python 3.6. Python is an easy to learn scripting language used for many different purposes such as web applications and scientific research. Companies like Google, Facebook and Reddit all use Python in their infrastructure and web services.
For the third year, KodeKiddo participated again in NCSS Challenges 2019 from Grok Learning, with over 124 of our students from 13 KodeKiddo centers participated. The results of the competition have now been released, and 27 students from KodeKiddo reached the top of the leader board with Perfect Scores! Great works kiddos!
Congratulations for all the kiddos who made it to the leader board as the top performers!
Hi. My name is
Lubna Mahdania, a Binus student and a teacher in KodeKiddo.
I’ve never heard
about Generation Girl until I got a message from Ms. Meil who recommended me to
join their summer club program. As I read the brochure Ms. Meil sent me, I’ve
learned that this program is basically a training camp program who will turn any
female high school students into a computer whiz. It didn’t take much times for me to get
interested in this idea. Right after that, I applied to join as a mentor. And
by that, I had to wait for several months until the summer club. I was so
excited to wait whether I would get accepted as a mentor or not!
One of the reasons
why I found this summer club program interesting and why I really wanted to contribute to this
amazing program is because I, as a female IT student, want to help female
youngsters to learn about programming. This industry is filled with males as a
majority, and I’m afraid that they might think that IT is not for them without
even trying to learn about it, or even get underestimated just because they are
female. Well, at least that’s what I thought before. I want them to see the IT
field that includes coding, computational thinking, etc. is fun and
interesting!
As time passed by,
the wait is finally over. I got accepted as a mentor, thankfully. And to
prepare for this amazing program, I had to work with a lot of cool people to
create the lesson plan and stuff. Since I’m majoring in Mobile App department,
I would teach them about Android and how to create a mobile app in a week.
We mentors prepared
and practiced so hard for two months or so, before the d-day. With a full of
hope that the kids would fall in love with mobile programming just like how we
did.
And just like that.
The time flew out so fast that the week 2 program of the summer club finally
came! I was so excited yet so nervous because there was a little part of me
that afraid the lesson would be so hard for the kids. But it was gone in no
time as I met all of the 15 amazing girls that enrolled in the class that I
taught in. They were all good and kind, had willing to learn and were so
excited to learn about mobile app as well. I was so shocked that some of them
already had a high motivation to create a mobile app even before joining the
class, while the rest were just ‘following’ their family’s recommendation.
All that just made my
motivation to teach them get up high. I shared some knowledges about mobile app
that I know to them, as well as introduced them about the mighty Android Studio
and how we use it as a tool to create a mobile app. The girls learned faster
than I imagined. I was so glad that even when there were students who couldn’t
join the class all-week, they still managed to learn and understand about the
lesson. I was so impressed, once again!
On the fourth day,
they had a task to create a mobile app as a project. And I once again was so
impressed by how the girls could think about a lot of creative ideas about
mobile app. In just a very short two days, they finally succeeded in creating
their first mobile app. I might be just stood there calmly at that time, but I
was so amazed and proud at what they’ve done. Well done, girls!
Even though the summer class was over, but I really hope that they could be more interested in programming in the future. They are still young and they surely have times to explore a lot of amazing things in the IT field. Technology is something that will change so fast and it just makes it so challenging to learn more. Since we’re talking about young age and IT, I also recommend kids to learn about computational thinking at a very young age. By learning about programming logics, it will help them to deepen their logic skills. Plus, it’s easier to teach them while they’re still young!
That’s why, on a daily basis, I spend my time as a coding instructor in KodeKiddo. With the knowledge that I have learned in college, I believe that I can help kids to learn more about computer programming and might as well to get them fall in love with it. I would be so proud if one day some of my students could be a successful IT people that one day could change the world!
Hai! Nama aku Christin, aku saat ini
masih kuliah di Binus University dan ngambil jurusan Teknik Informatika.
Kebetulan aku juga lagi magang sebagai Instructor di Kodekiddo.
Hari berjalan seperti biasa saat
tiba-tiba atasanku Ms Meilani, foundernya Kodekiddo kontak aku untuk bergabung
untuk jadi mentor pada sebuah workshop bertajuk “Generation Girl’s Summer
Club”, jelas aku yang saat itu gatahu menahu tentang organisasi ini mulai
mencari tau di internet, mulai dari stalkerin Instagram mereka, dan buka-buka
website resmi mereka.
Setelah aku stalkerin media social
mereka seharian, aku baru tahu ternyata Kodekiddo dan Generation Girls ini
pathnership. Dan visi misi Generation Girl adalah mendorong perempuan agar
mereka berperan penting dalam bidang bidang STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering dan Math) sejak dini melalui klub liburan yang seru.
Dari awal membaca aku sudah merasa
tertarik, jadi aku scroll lebih jauh lagi informasi tentang mereka, dan
ternyata kegiatan yang mereka lakukan seru-seru loh! Bayangin aja kita bisa
belajar IT secara gratis dan dapet makan siang pula! Dan mereka juga ada field
trip ke destinasi-destinasi yang berbeda tiap minggu.
Sebagai mahasiswi IT aku tahu jelas
jika bidang ini sebagian besar peminatnya adalah pria. Dan saat melihat visi
misi Generation Girl yang ternyata sebagian besar krunya(bahkan hampir 90% nya
adalah wanita) aku jadi makin excited! Rasanya pasti bakal seru ketemu sama
para wanita-wanita yang berkecimpung di bidang yang sama denganku, lebih-lebih
kita pasti kurang lebih merasakan pengalaman yang sama yaitu teman pria yang
lebih banyak daripada wanita.
Jadi mulailah aku coba buka url
pendaftaran mentor mereka, topik yang aku ambil untuk mentoring adalah Backend
For Beginners, awalnya agak was-was juga, secara Backend ini kan cukup
berat materinya dan target yang aku ajar itu anak umur 13-17 th. Tapi aku tetep
optimis dengan diri sendiri dan berusaha buat materialnya semudah dan semenyenangkan
mungkin untuk dipelajari. Khusus kelas aku, aku ngajar berdua bersama mbak Inne
dan untungnya mbak Inne ini juga baik!
Jadi tibalah hari H saat aku ngajar,
awalnya agak nervous juga walopun udah berpengalaman ngajar anak-anak. Tapi
ternyata anaknya seru-seru dong! Bahkan beberapa anak punya ketertarikan yang
sama kayak aku. Jadi proses mengajar selama seminggu itu terasa mudah, walopun
materi yang diangkat cukup berat namun anak-anaknya semangat banget sama yang
mereka pelajari! Aku yang ngajar juga jadi makin semangat untuk ngajar,
meskipun kita sering ketemu banyak error-error melanda di tengah jalan, tapi
semua itu bisa diselesaikan bersama, bahkan anak-anaknya juga saling bantu satu
sama lain. They’re so cute!
Summer
Club ini
bakalan jadi pengalaman gak terlupakan aku, karena disini aku berkesempatan
bertemu banyak wanita-wanita hebat yang udah berpengalaman sekali di bidangnya,
aku bisa dapet banyak masukan dari mereka, dan aku juga bisa berkenalan sama
para rookies-rookies yang lucu! Pokoknya aku dapat pengalaman seru yang ga akan
dilupakan, thank you juga untuk Ms Meil yang udah ngasih tau aku soal Summer
Club ini, kalo tidak ada beliau aku pasti ga akan tahu dan bertemu orang-orang
hebat disana.
The top three winners of the Scratch Coding Competition – Kode Fiesta 2019 have been selected.
You have made a project worthy of being one of the best projects from coders all over Indonesia.
Below are the nine winning teams (top three in each age category):
Elementary A (1st – 3rd grade)
First winner
Team Name : Bagas
Child Name : I Gusti Ngurah Bagas Arya Nugraha
Project Name : Bagas Kode Fiesta
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : Dandy Alfikri
City : Denpasar
Comment : Loved the various backdrops, the dialogue, and the animation of the characters: smokes, putting away trash
Second winner
Team Name : Dayu Ami
Child Name : Ida Ayu Tanaya Mahalakshmi
Project Name : Traveling Dayu Ami
Theme : Global Citizen
Coach Name : Abdul Halim Alhady
City : Denpasar
Comment : Good to see how you learned about lots of things during your travel. Very informational!
Third winner
Team Name : Yes I Can
Child Name : Eugene Lionel Garda Patria
Project Name : Scratch Project Eugene
Theme : Climate Healthy Body
Coach Name : Agnes
City : Jogja
Comment : Interactive game that teaches about balanced food. Required lots of tries before getting the winning combination.
Elementary B (4th – 6th grade)
First winner
Team Name : Jose
Child Name : Jose Alvaro Darmasetia
Project Name : Jose Kode Fiesta Project
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : Kenny
City : Jakarta
Comment : Very interactive game with good background story and message: reducing, recycling, and even make money.
Second winner
Team Name : Hugo the Dog
Child Name : Meagan Lee
Project Name : Healthy Body &
Healthy Mind
Theme : Healthy Body
Coach Name : John Amadeo Daniswara
City : Jakarta
Comment : Very personalized story with custom sound recording. Added bonus for interactivity from the drinking water & walking.
Third winner
Team Name : Guesteam
Child Name : I Gusti Lanang Dhirendra Dwiputra Widyantara
Project Name : Lanang Kode Fiesta
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : I Wayan Eka Arta Wibawa
City : Denpasar
Comment : Four different games with multi levels. Fun to play. Love the background music!
Junior high (7th – 9th grade)
First winner
Team Name : Omega KodeKiddo Solo
Child Name : Pannayaka Janggleng, Dylan Sean Chiarief
Project Name : Omega Warrior
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : Guruh Nusantara
City : Solo
Comment : Love the custom sprites! The game is fun. The joke about next level is also funny.
Second winner
Team Name : Devlin Mikha
Child Name : Devlin Mikha Dharmawan
Project Name : Kodekiddo_Devlin
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : Irma Ayu
City : Jakarta
Comment : Fun play with. Love the many backdrops with detail & mini games on each scenario.
Third winner
Team Name : doggostudios
Child Name : Stefan Natanael Kencana
Project Name : Earth project Stefan
Theme : Climate Warrior
Coach Name : I Wayan Eka Arta Wibawa
City : Denpasar
Comment : Very original idea! Engaging game that needs strategy thinking and math.
The top two teams are invited to attend the KiddoHack 2019 in Jakarta, present your projects, and awarded their prize there.
Please reply to this email by Wednesday, August 7, 2019 to confirm your attendance. Travel expenses (up to Rp 3,000,000 per team) are covered by the organizer (receipt required).
The third-place winners will get a surprise prize in the mail.
We have been so impressed by all the great examples of creative storytelling, design thinking, teamwork and perseverance with coding in this competition.
Thank you to all of our KodeFiesta teams, their support teams (i.e. parents), and of course their wonderful and dedicated coaches.
We will share all the projects, videos, and complete story from KodeFiesta 2019 for in our Blog in the next few weeks. Stay Tune! All the submitted projects are available in this Scratch Studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25027681/
Libur
sekolah telah tiba dan seiring dengan ini, Kodekiddo mengadakan kegiatan Holiday
Program 2019 di mana anak-anak dapat ikut serta dan belajar coding untuk
mengisi liburan mereka dengan hal yang baik dan bermanfaat, kegiatan ini
menyediakan fasilitas belajar coding untuk anak-anak SD dan SMP.Kegiatan ini
dapat menguji kemampuan mereka dalam berpikir logical dan computational,
program ini berlangsung selama 4 minggu di mana terdapat topik yang
berbeda-beda di setiap minggunya, dan pada hari terakhir, kiddos mendapatkan
sertifikat dari Kodekiddo. Selain itu, pada hari terakhir setiap minggunya orang tua diundang untuk dapat hadir untuk menyaksikan presentasi hasil kegiatan dari anak.
Kodekiddo menawarkan topik yang
beragam dan disesuaikan dengan kemampuan belajar anak-anak, seminggu yang lalu
sudah ada 10 murid yang menyelesaikan holiday program untuk kelas 4 SD keatas,
beberapa topik menarik yang disediakan,beberapa topiknya yaitu ( Unity :
di topik ini kiddos dilatih dalam membuat dan mendesign game sederhana, MIT:Mobile
App Development : di topik ini kiddos dilatih dalam mendesign dan membuat
aplikasi untuk mobile, Hardware Integration : di topik ini kiddos
dilatih untuk menghubungkan software dengan hardware). Semua
topik ini diajarkan selama 5 hari dalam seminggu, di mana pada hari keempat dan
hari terakhir yaitu hari jumat, kiddos membuat free project dengan basic yang
telah dipelajari dari materi yang disediakan pada 3 hari pertama, setelah itu
mereka mempresentasikan project yang mereka buat di depan teman-teman dan orang
tua.
Pada holiday program tahun ini kami
juga menghadirkan lagi Teaching Assistant (TA), para Teaching Assistant ini
merupakan siswa-siswi reguler class di Kodekiddo sehingga mereka sudah
berbekali basic dalam coding, selain itu juga mereka dibekali dengan materi
yang dipelajari pada holiday program, dengan adanya Teaching Assistant, kiddos
dapat merasa lebih nyaman dan tidak malu karena mereka tidak hanya dapat
bertanya kepada Teacher namun mereka juga dapat bertanya kepada pengajar yang
seumur atau hampir seumur dengan mereka. Dengan diselenggarakannya kegiatan
holiday program kami bertujuan untuk menunjukan pentingnya anak-anak belajar
coding seperti layaknya mereka belajar membaca dan menulis dari usia dini, dan
waktu liburan anak-anak juga menjadi lebih bermanfaat dan menyenangkan.
