Every learner must learn to CODE

Every learner must learn to Code

Maloma Primary School excitely hosted the Microsoft YouthSpark for the first time. The event was organised by Mpumalangala ICT Club in partnership with SchoolnetSA and Microsoft. The 23rd June 2017 would be remembered by 30 learners of Maloma Primary School when they leave the school to choose various careers in IT in few years to come.

At first these learners couldn’t expressed their excitement until they hit few buttons on their laptops to start Coding. "We saw real time collaboration, communication and team spirit coming alive during the coding session" said the Principal. Coding is the Basic Computer Science Programming that every learner must learn. With this basic skill in IT, kids will look forward to choose IT, Science and Mathematics subjects towards their careers choices.

During the event, Miss Keninda switched on to the live broadcast of the YouthSpark hosted by Microsoft in Johannesburg for learners to interact with the panel that was discussing various careers in IT through Skype in the Classroom. "Every learner must be given an opportunity to learn coding,  that is what I am doing these days" said Ms Keninda - Coding Facilitator. "In April 2017 I trained 40 teachers in eMalahleni to teach their learners to code, I am excited that Maloma Primary School took this skill very serious.

During the YouthSpark Live, learners were introduced to IT experts in the country. Ms Rapelang Rabana was one of them. She is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and a founder of Rekindle Learning. She did not have a plan at the age of 16, but Rapelang has gone on to bigger and bigger things in IT industry.