Mpumalanga ICT Club Connects the African Continent

Eastdene Combined Scratchers led by Pytjani 

They are saying “Flowa Powa, Merci Les Amis” when they come across our Coding pictures in the Africa Code Week sites. They retweet and like our Twitter and Facebook posts. It was a fantastic week of coding called Africa Code Week on the 18-25 October 2017 in Africa.

Scratchers who facilitates Africa Code Week:
 Motlabayile, Ntomfuthi
Florence, Ntombizodwa and Nomusa 

Africa Code Week is an initiative that gives opportunity to millions of kids, youth and even adults in Africa to learn Coding. Mpumalanga ICT Club volunteered to partner with Cape Town Science Centre to train teachers and learners to Code using Scratch as a language. Like we say “Coding is a new language, Every child deserves to be fluent”  #AfricaCodeWeek #Scratch

Mthombeni Primary School in the Steve Tshwete 
Municipality

“ We hosted number of workshops in EMalahleni and Siyabuswa before the official start of the Africa Code Week and more than 200 teachers were trained.” Ms. Nomusa Keninda- Facilitator and Mpumalanga ICT Club Founder relates. 

“We were 100% ready to put the Club on the map of Africa, connecting every coding organizations along our dots and learning the best in Africa” said Ms. Ntombizodwa Gininda enthusiastically. She is a Scratch and PowerPoint Facilitator in the Club. We adopted few learners at schools as Coding Coordinators to teach other kids to Code and to take care of their Computer Labs.

“Volunteering your skills to shape the future of this country, is the best thing that happened to me. We love doing what we do in the Mpumalanga ICT Club” comments from Ms. Florence Sibiya- Volunteer in the Club.

Comments about the Africa Code Week in and around the country:

“Flowa Powa For Mpumalanga ICT Club”, thanks for hosting Africa Code Week in our school, forward with technology at our school, keep on rolling, keep on don’t tire , what a beautiful day we had, tholukuthi siyaScratcher, we are Scratchers, thank Nomusa Keninda for unleashing our children potential, Uyibatla kay’ koComputeng.

Compiled by Nomusa Keninda- eLearning Specialist and Mpumalanga ICT Club Founder