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How Coding Has Impacted Worldwide Healthcare
The use of coding in the healthcare industry has been on the rise for several years. From electronic medical records to telemedicine, coding has become an essential part of modern healthcare. Here are some ways that coding is forever changing the face of Healthcare worldwide.
Easter Eggs: It’s not all about Chocolate and Candy
Keep an eye out for sneaky little messages in your favorite films and games, these ‘easter eggs’ add an extra layer of entertainment!
Helping children with Autism achieve their full potential through coding.
Our founder Elizabeth shares her own story of how coding has had a profound impact on her autistic son’s life…
Celebrate Your Child’s Coding Success with Digital Badges!
Unlocking Progress, One Badge at a Time…How Coco Coders celebrates your child's coding journey
At Coco Coders, learning to code isn’t just about typing lines of code—it’s about growth, creativity, and achievement. That’s why we’ve introduced digital badges to reward our students every step of the way!
7 Ways to Beat Spring Break Boredom
While brain breaks are super important, there are still fun ways to keep your kids engaged in creative and educational activities while they take a break from hectic school schedules.
Job Hopping: Why Millennials and Gen Z Workers Don’t Sit Still
The concept of staying in one job for your entire career is no longer the norm. In fact, job hopping, or moving from one job to another frequently, has become a common practice for the Millennial and Generation Z workforce. But why are younger workers far less likely to stay in one position for more than one year?
5 Reasons Your Child Will Fall In Love With Coding
Helping your kids learn to code is not only a fun way for them to learn future-ready skills, but it will also help them build the confidence and determination to thrive no matter what life throws at them. Highly sought after skills plus the confidence and perseverance to get the job done? Now that’s a swoon-worthy match made in tech-heaven!
Free Time Travel Coding Activity
Here’s a FREE coding activity from one of our online coding lessons, which guides you through creating your very own time travel animation in Scratch…
5 Things We Want For Kids in 2023
As parents we have a lot of hopes and dreams for our kids. While what their futures hold is ultimately up to them and the decisions they make, there are certainly ways we can positively influence them along the way! Here are some ideas for things that can help kids level up in health, happiness and future-readiness this year.
5 Ways to Prevent Learning Loss over Winter Break
It only takes kids a few days out of their normal routine to completely change the way their brains retain information, but ‘brain breaks’ are also very important and beneficial to overall brain health. So how can we balance taking advantage of a break while also preventing learning loss?
5 Reasons to Gift a Coding Class
Every holiday season has an ‘it’ toy. The one that all the kids in each age range have to have or their world will literally end as they know it. This leads to packs of panicky parents stampeding through miles of stores in the hope that they can get their hands on the popular toy before stock runs out and prices skyrocket.
Skip the rat race this year and give them a gift that is guaranteed to outlast and outperform any ‘it’ toy
Redeeming Screen Time: How to Manage Your Child’s Tech Exposure
Screen time is one of the most divisive and discussed issues in the past decade. While screen time has been both championed and heavily demonized, the real truth may be somewhere in the middle.
3 Real Life Benefits of Hybrid Skills
Being able to adapt, communicate, and solve problems in multiple ways provides students an edge in not only earning a position in industries they are passionate about, but in managing everyday life successfully. Here are 3 real life benefits of building hybrid skills.
The Importance of Technology Literacy
From the vast cornfields of Iowa to the cobbled streets of London, Coco Coders founder and CEO Elizabeth Tweedale has been setting new standards in coding education for young students. Now she’s back in the US and she brought her award winning coding curriculum for students 6-12 years old with her.
10 Reasons Your Child Needs Coding Skills
Coding is more than the high-stress keyboard smashing of blockbuster action movies that the early 90’s showcased, it’s an integral piece of many items and systems we use in our everyday lives. Coding is the language of the future, and here are ten reasons your child will benefit from learning about it now…
Preparing Kids For The Connected Future
With more than half of the planet’s population connected through at least one internet-ready device, life looks very different today than it did just a couple decades ago. So how can we prepare our kids for a future that’s sure to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen?
How Does Coding Fit Into STEM Education?
At Coco Coders, we know that STEM education plays a pivotal role in shaping the jobs of the future, and this unified approach to teaching is at the heart of our coding lessons. Read on to find out how STEM can prepare your child for the high-tech careers of the future, and how learning to code can support their education.
Hello Coco!
Today we have launched a new brand, Coco Coders, for our online coding lessons. Until now, we’ve taught these online lessons under the Cypher Coders brand - which first launched in June 2016 offering in-person coding camps and clubs in London schools - but as the online part of our business has grown it has become a little confusing to talk about these very different products on the same website, in our emails and on our social channels.
3 Brain Foods for Kids
It can be hard to get kids to sit down and eat at all, but what they consume can affect their level of focus and cognitive growth. The early years are especially critical for brain development. On average, children who have a higher consumption of unhealthy snacks and sugar-loaded drinks score lower on standardized tests. Additionally, deficiencies of nutrients such as iron and iodine can hinder cognitive and motor development. Often, these effects are permanent.
Choosing the right foods can help to ensure proper mental stability and growth, and also provide the right kind of energy to maintain focus, awareness and creativity. We picked 3 brain foods that are packed with nutrients and great for an easy AND healthy diet…