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How the Challenges of Game Design Teach Kids Perseverance and Resilience

Published on July 16, 2024

Parents want their children to learn how computers really work for understandable reasons. We live in a society dominated by digital technology, and understanding what coding is and knowing how to program is akin to peeking behind the curtains to seeing how this mysterious technology really works. However, there isn’t merely one thing called “coding” […]

Unleashing Potential: Summer Coding Camps Foster Leadership Skills in Kids

Published on June 27, 2024

Kids learn a lot more than the course material from their classes. The class may revolve around learning French, science, literature, history, or whatever else, but students absorb many indirect, secondary lessons. The public school system is designed not merely to impart domain knowledge to kids, but to help them socialize and collaborate with their […]

Coding Camp Chronicles: How Kids Can Spend Their Summer Productively Behind Screens

Published on June 11, 2024

Most people have heard the phrase “screen time” before, as it’s become a cautionary expression. The basic idea is simple: the movies and games we see on screens can be addictive, and if you’re not careful, they can suck you in and consume much of your life. Adults need to watch themselves, but the thinking […]

Guide to Choosing the Right Summer Coding Class for Your Kids

Published on May 23, 2024

Every parent wants to prepare their kids today for the world of tomorrow. For many, this means ensuring they understand the digital technology dominating today’s economy, culture, and just about everything else. That’s why online coding classes are so popular, but which one should you take? RP4K has a summer coding class program that lets […]

Code Champions: Empowering Kids in Our Online Coding Program

Published on March 15, 2024

Parents enroll their children in after-school programs for two main reasons. They want them to learn something important that they’ll use later, in life or their careers. But more than that, they want them to have fun and enjoy their childhoods. In over twenty years of teaching kids to code, RP4K has found that these […]

Exploring How Coding Concepts Can Be Applied to Real-Life Situations

Published on January 29, 2024

Sometimes, when we learn a new subject, what we absorb gets applied down the road in surprising ways. You never know how a math lesson may assert itself later in contexts that have nothing to do with crunching numbers. For example, kids learn problem-solving when they do math, but thinking on their feet can help […]

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