NewTechKids has been teaching lessons on the topic of biomimicry (how technology can mimic plants and animals) for years and we've seen how this topic enchants kids. We've shown them videos of what happens when robots designed to look like animals are placed in animal colonies as well as videos of robotic buildings which can move or open and close based on the sun. We've shown them examples of robots developed to mimic the movements
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NewTechKids will be teaching another after-school robotics and coding bootcamp at the Amsterdam Public Library's Ijburg branch on Monday afternoons. The bootcamp begins this Monday, January 26th and a few spots are left. Register here. Dynamo, an after-school activity provider in Amsterdam, has heavily subsidized the bootcamp which is free for children from low-income families who have a Stadspas. This is because Dynamo is one of our long-term partners in making sure that tech education is
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Give the gift of a learning experience, rather than a thing. NewTechKids is teaching two, 3-day bootcamps during the 2025 Christmas holidays at the Amsterdam Public Library for kids ages 8-12. Kids will discuss technology and design, build and code robots in pairs based on fun class challenges. Taught in a combination of Dutch and English by professional teachers and instructors. Daily 10:00 - 14:00. All kids welcome, newbies and kids with previous experience. Discounted
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"We don't want help. We can do it on our own." During a recent NewTechKids computer science class at an Amsterdam primary school, we challenged students to design robots which can play musical instrument toys. Our collection of toy instruments includes a plastic didgeridoo which has never been used. When I mentioned this and challenged students to choose it, a pair of girls grabbed it. Not just any girls: a pair that loves building, figuring
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Register here. NewTechKids will be giving a teacher training workshop focused on introducing digital literacy to primary school students. Since January 2023, NewTechKids has been teaching digital literacy programs at schools and our after-school programs. We started teaching these classes at OBS Wereldwijs, a primary school in Amsterdam Southeast which has been designated 'Excellent' by the Dutch government in both 2019 and 2022. Our curriculum includes how technology systems work, the use of digital productivity
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NewTechKids is going out with a bang in 2022. We're finishing up a bunch of bootcamps at the moment and we've come up with a novel way to challenge our students to put their knowledge of computer science, coding and robotics to the test. We've been hosting a series of friendly robot races with a twist. In teams, kids design, build and code robots which can grab (wrapped) candies which are scattered on the floor
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Playing to boys' interests starts early, sadly often in coding and computer science classes at the primary school level. The temptation is to focus on diving into the ultra-geeky, more masculine activities to showcase all of the cool stuff you can do with tech. Race car robots. Monster robots. Space warrior robots. Etcetera. But that's exactly when teachers make the biggest mistakes in terms of excluding many girls who are yet to discover the magic
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Register kids ages 8-12 in our early Fall 2021 bootcamps if you want to prepare them to become tech inventors, innovators and critical thinkers. NewTechKids don't focus on training master coders: we focus on developing kids who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to identify a problem and then create a technology prototype to solve it. This Fall, we're blending technology with different subjects to expose kids to multidisciplinary ways of solving problems. Tuesday Afternoons:
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NewTechKids is pleased to open up registration for its Summer 2021 bootcamps. We're again partnering with the Amsterdam Public Library to offer kids in Amsterdam and the rest of the Netherlands the chance to learn computer science, a subject which is not taught in most primary and high schools in the Netherlands, and develop 21st century skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, teamwork and collaboration, communication and creativity. We will be offering six, week-long bootcamps
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NewTechKids was invited by the Mozilla Foundation to give two, online workshops for kids and their parents during MozFest 2021. MozFest is the Foundation's annual festival which migrated online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During our workshops, we taught kids about how technology is designed through concepts such as resources and requirements before exposing them to the logic of coding by encouraging them to create their own coding language. We led them through
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