Tiny Hands are Coding

In the framework of Scratch Cup 2024 held in cooperation with Habitat Association pursuant to our Tiny Hands are Coding project, tiny hands will now code games that promote more environmental-friendly urban development which is a bleeding wound in today’s cities on the basis of sustainability! Tiny hands in the leadership of their mentors will write eco-friendly codes in the light of Sustainable Living Spaces theme by forming a group of 2 to 3 people and will be the real heroes of the World.

All our volunteer trainers and children who know coding and have previously attended our trainings can apply from the link. You can visit our website www.minikellerkodyaziyor.com to learn coding and attend our online/offline trainings, and then be included in the Scratch Cup 2024 process.
 

Scratch Cup 2023 Finalists

A total of 1098 applications from 53 cities, two of which were from abroad, were accepted in Scratch Cup 2023. As a result of evaluations, a total of 23 children from 10 teams, composed of five teams for each category of children by ages 8-10 and 11-14, were qualified for finals with their fun and creative games. The teams explained their games and answered the questions of jury within a specified timeframe. All children were granted an award in accordance with their respective categories following the jury evaluation.

8-10 Age Category

Best Project Award: My Refreshed World, İstanbul
Best Graphic Design Award:Environmental-friendly Village, İzmir
Best Code Structure Award:Renewable Energy Resources, Kocaeli
Best Adaptation Award:Energetic Cat, Adana
Best Screenplay Award:Clean Energy Resources Animation, Van
 
11-14 Age Category

Best Project Award:ChargeUp, Ankara
Best Graphic Design Award:How about protecting the Nature? İzmir
Best Code Structure Award:Renewable Symbols, Kocaeli
Best Adaptation Award:Clean World My World, İstanbul
Best Screenplay Award:Green Energy, Uşak

Our “Tiny Hands are Coding” project continues through online trainings!

Within the scope of our “Tiny Hands are Coding” project materialized in collaboration with Habitat Association, we provide training for our children on programming languages Scratch 3.0 and Tinkercard developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with a simple interface for children use. The objective of our project is to enhance the creativity and computer skills of our children, introduce them with programming and to extend the code literacy awareness.

In the scope of our trainings, we do not only intend to foster coding skills of our children but also aim for improving their art and storytelling skills via imagination and creativity. We moved the coding trainings organized since 2015 to an online platform in 2020. Thus, all children between the ages of 8 to 14 in Turkey and abroad who know Turkish can attend coding trainings for free via www.minikellerkodyaziyor.com website. Please click on link to attend our online coding training and for further information.

A total of 3.017 people from 69 different cities participated in face-to-face and online coding trainings in 2022, and a total of 5.123 children aged between 8-12 years old, 2.106 of whom via website, received training.

In the scope of Tiny Hands are Coding project, we have reached a total of more than 45 thousand children in Turkey and from abroad until today and delivered about 400 thousand-hour trainings.