Learn A New Skill in One Summer
Why summer is a great time for kids to learn coding
Sponsored By CodeWizardsHQ May 28, 2020
If you are like most parents, you are anxious to make good use of your child's time during summer. Every year, we get an influx of calls from parents asking for summer activities. So, how can you enrich your child’s summer, especially from home, this year? We have the answer!
In one summer, your child could learn a new skill that builds confidence, improves critical thinking, and prepares them for professional and personal success in the future.
That skill is coding. If you have considered learning to code as an enrichment activity for your child, then the summer is a golden opportunity and you shouldn’t miss. Here is why: Learning any new skill is challenging at first.– You get stuck on the mechanics.It’s frustrating, but once you persevere through it, you start to get the hang of it.
– You waste time on dead-ends.
– You keep forgetting things you learned.
– You get confused about concepts you thought you understood.
– You start figuring things out.Learning becomes fun. You're on a roll. You have survived the interest dip. Any child can learn to code. But not every child survives the dip. Besides having an interest, what is the most important thing a child needs in order to survive the dip of learning to code? TIME.
– Every tiny-success deepens your interest.
– You get engaged with the challenge in front of you.
– You start creating things that you feel proud of.
– Time to practice coding.It is hard to dedicate time to coding during the school year. During the summer, students have plenty of time. If they utilize that time to start learning to code and get through the initial dip before school starts, then summer is a roaring success. Mastering this crucial 21st-century skill will set your child up for unprecedented levels of college and career success. Wouldn’t it be impressive to say you coded a website or game this summer? CodeWizardsHQ offers accelerated 3-week summer classes. Your child can learn to code with a live teacher and build a game or website every class. Unlike many other virtual coding classes, we’ve been teaching online for over 6 years and our curriculum was developed with distance learning in mind. CodeWizardsHQ offers the most fun and effective online coding classes for kids ages 8-18 in their elementary, middle, and high school programs. This summer, your kids can create the games they play!
– Time without distractions.
– Time without competing priorities.
– Time without impending deadlines.
Sponsored By CodeWizardsHQ
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