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11 Jun 2021

NewTechKids at CogX AI & Innovation Festival

Deborah Carter, NewTechKids' Founder and Managing Director, will be MCing sessions at CogX, a global festival on AI & Transformational Technology taking place next week (June 14-16). A hybrid festival physically taking place in London and online, the Festival bills itself as "the world’s largest gathering of CEOs, Entrepreneurs, Academics, Artists, Activists & Policy Makers working to realise the biggest transformational opportunities of our time and address the challenges along the way". Register for a free

4 Sep 2020

Code Games Competition: Design and Develop Original Games

By NewTechKids

Encouraging kids to participate in challenges and competitions is an important part of tech innovation education. Code Games is an initiative whereby kids ages 10-18 around the world are invited to enter a global competition to design and develop original video games. The competition is organized into two age divisions: a Junior Division for entrants ages 10-13 and a Senior Division for entrants ages 14-18. Entries in the Junior Division are not in competition with

28 Mar 2020

Activity for Kids, Parents and Teachers: Help the U.N.

By NewTechKids

Challenge children to help the United Nations spread public health messages about the behaviours and habits that people should adopt to fight the spread of Coronavirus. The UN is asking creatives (designers, illustrators, storytellers, marketeers, artists as well as people with creative ideas) to contribute to “translating critical public health messages into different languages, different cultures, communities and platforms, reaching everyone, everywhere”. These messages will be spread across different mediums, including social to print, radio, television,

4 Apr 2017

NewTechKids Joins CSTA’s International Committee

By NewTechKids

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has invited NewTechKids to serve on its International Committee. Deborah Carter, NewTechKids’ Co-founder, has become one of the Committee's members and will contribute to CSTA’s global strategy, specifically international membership growth, diversity issues and information exchange. CSTA is a membership organization which supports and promotes the teaching of computer science from kindergarten to grade 12. CSTA represents more than 25,000 members from more than 145 countries. Its members include elementary,

NewTechKids at Bed Talks Event

By NewTechKids

Deborah Carter, one of NewTechKids' co-founders, will be getting into bed with some interesting people on Friday, April 15th. She'll be joining 50 other global change makers during Bed Talk, an event organised by The Student Hotel in Amsterdam, and inspired by the lie-in staged by John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in 1969. Bed Talks is a free event focused on making the world a better place. She'll be speaking during three sessions with