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Solution overview

Our Solution

10,000 kids learning coding to improve the life of millions

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A 16 weeks online coding learning program organized in a project where kids will develop social impact solutions for their communities.

Pitch us on your solution

Peruvian Education Ministry came to us looking for a solution that could help low income students give their first steps in technology learning coding, for their personal development and for the potential impact they can generate in their communities and their families incomes.

We’ve developed and tested and specific program in which kids attend online activities (face to face with trainers and self paced through a virtual platform) to learn and develop coding skills. The purpose of the program for each kid is to develop an app that can solve a problem in their communities.

This project will also generate employment for 60 trainers that will be guiding the online activities. Thirty of these trainers were already trained and another 30 will be incorporated and trained for this project.

Project will be delivered and manage through our already developed and tested platform and learning method.

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What is the problem you are solving?

Spanish speaking youth face many problems to learn coding:

Coding languages are created and updated in English.
Lack of access to tech resources, learning tools and infrastructure.
<1% of LATAM schools teach Computer Science vs 40% of US.
Corona Virus crisis request kids to stay and learn from home without an existing k-12 curriculum they can follow.

This program is in Spanish and will be implemented in partnership with Peruvian Government, that doesn't has the resources so finance the program but will coordinate and promote its implementation. See formal letter attached.

With this program we are generating 3 big impacts:

Low income kids will be able to learn coding generating business and employment opportunities for them right now and in the future
60 trainers will be directly employed for this project. Generating a much-needed opportunity for them in these hard and challenging times.
The solutions kids will develop during the program will solve and generate a positive impact in their communities

Who are you serving?

10,000 School students: from the last 3 years of highschool from a low-income background. They currently attend public schools from all over the country and are taking a program oriented to develop technical skills for the job market (in this case the tech world). We will monitor permanently their performance an feedback through the platform, evaluate them at the beginning and the end of the programs and we will run user research interviews and surveys in order to ensure they are getting the best of the program and they are developing the skills needed and to manage their future careers.
Trainers: we are reskilling and training new schoolteachers to be able to teach coding for young students. We have designed a train the trainer’s program for them a constantly asses them on the delivery of the programs and to empower the students through mentoring, q&a solving and guidance on their projects. Digital skillful teachers will be one of the most demanded jobs in the education segment in the future and can radically boost the income of these teachers.

What is your solution?

We have developed a SOCIAL LEARNING NETWORK where SPANISH SPEAKING YOUTH can develop the skills they need to LEAD the global digital economy.

We have built the platform that solves the gap for the K12 educational system:

With mentor and training programs for learning to code. All our programs are project based learning and problem solving focused.
Our solution is gamified to suit the way kids learn today.
We have a modular curriculum for all ages.
And we track user data so teachers and schools can measure the students’ performance.

The four-month program that we are delivering to the students consists on the following courses:

Hello World: Introduction to programming in python. Print commands, inputs, data types, Strings, Variables, Conditions, Loops.
Discovering commands and rules: Lists, Data validations, Complex and compound loops.
Building flows and program mechanics: Dictionaries, Functions.
Storing and Managing data: Text archive creation and use to store data, code optimization, use of external libraries.

By the end of the program, students will:

Develop a project using all the content learned through the program that aims to solve a community problem.
Create and build teams that participate in a project contest will all the participants of the program.
Participate in a talent fair to present the projects developed to enterprises, startups and potential recruiters.

Select only the most relevant.

Deploy new and alternative learning models that broaden pathways for employment and teach entrepreneurial, technical, language, and soft skills
Support and build the capacity of formal and informal educators to better prepare Latin American and Caribbean learners of all ages for the jobs of today and tomorrow

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Lima, Perú

Our solution's stage of development:

Growth