Parents want to sign their children up for fun and productive activities, but they don’t always know what they’ll enjoy. Most kids don’t identify their passion right away, and it can be difficult for parents to know before undergoing some trial and error. On the other hand, activities like coding require certain skills and temperaments. […]
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Coding Teaches Kids Transferable Skills Employers Seek
As a parent, you want your children to enjoy their childhood and emerge from it prepared for the world. It can be difficult sometimes to balance the pressure to teach them valuable life skills during childhood while also keeping it a time for play, self-discovery, and innocence. Real Programming 4 Kids understands this challenge, which […]
Christmas Coding Games Your Kids Will Love
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and at RP4K that means one thing: more coding! We think the Christmas holidays should be spent playing coding games because having fun while coding is the core of what RP4K does all year. The teachers at RP4K are passionate and knowledgeable about coding, but we prefer […]
How RP4K Gets Girls to Code
Real Programming 4 Kids believes passionately in the value of STEM education, but even more than that, we believe everyone should be able to learn about their passions. Historically, careers like engineering and computer science were dominated by men, which takes a long time to undo. According to Engineers Canada, in 2017, women make up […]
10 Games That Encourage Kids to Code
Video games are a great way to get children into coding. Not only is coding the thing that brings games to life, some of them even teach actual coding skills. Sometimes video games are so much fun that children don’t even realize they’re learning. If you want your kids to get a taste for coding, […]
Tips to Help You Survive the School Year – No Matter What It Looks Like
This school year is like no other. In-person attendance is no longer mandatory, with many families opting for online studies at home instead, while high schools have moved to a hybrid model of in-person and online classes in order to reduce the number of students in school buildings at the same time. As kids return […]
6 Rewarding Careers that Require Excellent Coding Skills
The tech world can seem a little opaque to those on the outside. We might rely on products produced by tech companies every day, but what goes into the design and creation of these products can still be a bit of a mystery. Yet over the past twenty years, tech has become one of the […]
Make Online Learning a Plan for this School Year
With so much of the world having moved online recently, some are wary about loading on more and more screen-time. Parents in Ontario were left feeling frustrated by the way school boards handled “distanced learning” in the spring, with many choosing to opt out instead. Nevertheless, there’s still trepidation about the return to the classroom. […]