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 

We are part of the Officially Launched MST Academy

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/mpumalanga/r100-million-science-academy-unveiled-in-mpumalanga-11478274

MST Academy renamed OR Mathematics, Science and Technology Academy

Reception with Ms. Ndinisa and Mr. Isaac Zitha

Mpumalanga ICT CLUB: WOW! GREAT TEACHERS ARE CODERS, GREATER TEACHERS ARE SCRATCHERS

Mpumalanga ICT CLUB: WOW! GREAT TEACHERS ARE CODERS, GREATER TEACHERS ARE SCRATCHERS

WOW! GREAT TEACHERS ARE CODERS, GREATER TEACHERS ARE SCRATCHERS

WOW! GREAT TEACHERS ARE CODERS, GREATER TEACHERS ARE SCRATCHERS

Train the Trainer Coding Workshop in preparation for Africa Code Week

 "1,2,3 We are Scratchers" like small kids, they shouted with excitement. These teachers attended the Train the Trainer Workshop organised by Mpumalanga ICT Club on the 25 August 2017 at Vodacom ICT Club in eMalahleni.

"Wow! Great teachers are Coders, Greater teachers are Scratchers" tweeted Ms Nomusa Keninda - the Mpumalanga ICT Club Founder and the Facilitator of the Coding workshops in Mpumalanga.

Coding is a basic computer science programming. This time they were using Scratch language to code and teachers loved it. The workshop was in preparation for Africa Code Week.
Arguably, Africa Code Week is the first initiative of its kind, targeting more than 500,000 young Africans aged 8 to 24 across 35 countries into Coding on the 18-25 October 2017.

Its simple ... Coding is a new language, every child deserves to be fluent. "I am excited to host these fantastic workshops for teachers for free" smiled Keninda. My greatest and significant goal is to involve everybody, young and old. Mpumalanga must buzz with coding during the Africa Code Week and your support is welcomed. My million ZAR goes to Ms. Julie Cleverdon from Cape Town Science Centre for supporting the workshop. Thank you.

Ms. Mathandi Mokumo(front), Mbali Ngubeni(middle) and Nomzamo Makhotha

The club has also trained two Grade 10 girls from Patriot High School as Pro – Scratchers: Nomzamo Makhotha and Mbali Ngubeni. 

Teachers are therefore invited to embrace this opportunity and host Coding events in their schools as requested during the training workshop. More workshops in the month of September are being planned, lookout for adverts on the Mpumalanga ICT Club facebook page.