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AlMakinah: Egyptian Startup Teaches Children to Code

September 27, 2018
Photo courtesy of Al Makinah

After a successful summer round of graduating 20 children from Makinder, AlMakinah, a tech hub geared at empowering youth, has announced its continuation of running the coding school designed for children parallel to the academic school system. Makinder caters to children aged 9-11, and instills the fundamentals of coding, problem solving and programming at a young age to foster masterminds for the future. The maadi-based program features three core main elements. First students learn programming concepts through unplugged activities, where the instructors use various team building activities which allows children to understand the complex concepts in a simplified game-like manner. Then the participants get to translate these activities into lines of block code, whereby they begin manipulating code blocks to create functions and algorithms. Finally, they then experience their code coming to life as they connect their code to hardware devices and watch how they can manipulate the device by changing their code. Jailan Salah, one of the lead instructors of the program with a master’s degree in Education and Learning Disabilities, said “we strongly believe in teaching our youth fundamental programming concepts which underlie all technologies and will never…


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