Newly formed Seshego coding club to benefit 45 children
The Seshego Community Scratch Coding Club will gather every Saturday and use Scratch to acquire skills that will enable learners to create their own job market at the end of their studies.
POLOKWANE – ‘Coding’ is a new buzz word of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and local TechGran Phuti Ragophala followed suit when she recently launched the first community club, called Seshego Community Scratch Coding Club to benefit 45 children in Seshego.
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According to Ragophala, coding is the new way of learning with the aim of acquiring skills that will enable learners to create their own job market at the end of their studies.
“It is all about developing coding skills using Scratch. You will realise that coding is becoming the language of the future. We need to equip children with relevant skills to be able to face the future with pride, and to fit in well with the job market looking at 4IR and beyond,” Ragophala explains and adds that, as a teaching associate from the University of Johannesburg and Microsoft Education Trainer, she involved herself in a campaign of grooming future programmers through Scratch.
According to Ragophala, lack of technology devices may be a challenge.
“But with two laptops from my home gallery space, I am going to make sure that each child benefits from the coding project. The training is going to take more or less 12 weeks every Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00,” the TechGran said.
The project is launched under her NPO called Phuti Training and Motivational Speaking Project.
