What is the CogAT Test? The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) measures the level and pattern of cognitive development of a student compared to age mates and grade mates. The CogAT is a nationally standardized test schools and educators use to identify gifted and talented students. In our regular world, we normally test children on acquired …
It is well proven now that block-based coding courses for kids is an effective and popular method for introducing programming concepts. With its user-friendly interface and visual components, block-based coding offers several advantages that make it an important tool for children’s educational development. Scratch, Thunkable, and Blockly are definitely the best block coding resources available …
Children can benefit hugely from learning how to code and we saw plenty of examples of that in our previous blogs. In line with that, UnicMinds has launched free coding tests and resources for kids to make it easy for them to assess themselves continuously across the subject knowledge and applications. Are you looking for …
In this post, we’ll see the steps required to create a two player Maze Runner game in Scratch. The simple goal of this game is that the players help the cat sprites to reach the goal – a delicious apple!. Overview of the steps required to completely code the Two Player Maze Runner game in …
More than 95% of the Internet you use anywhere in the world travels through the tiny optical fibers connected via. Land (and therefore Sea). Contrary to your beliefs, only a very tiny portion of the Internet actually uses satellite communications. The majority (more than 95% of global internet) runs on under-sea cables. In this post, …
Ethical Hacking for Juniors Tweens and Teenagers often wonder how computers in a network are all related and how the data travels from my mail to my friend’s mailbox over the internet. If you’re one of them, then you might’ve heard about TCP/IP and wondered what are all these names and where can I learn …
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There is a deep relationship between prime numbers and public key encryption using RSA algorithm. In this post, we will understand why prime numbers are important for encryption. We will work with small prime numbers as shown in the below example and some of those will be our public and private keys. In actual reality, …
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Coding is not just for kids who are interested in technology and computer-science. By engaging in giving logical instructions to computers, kids are developing problem-solving skills and computational thinking. At UnicMinds, we provide children a great way to integrate subject learning along with coding. For example, children will write code to solve some math problems …
In this post, we will show you how to code a simple basketball game in Scratch. The code for this can be found here. If you want to learn to create games in Scratch, be sure to check out our Scratch course Level 1 and Level 2 to learn Scratch coding from the basics. Synopsis …
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Young Coders program provides kids with basic logic-building, creative outlet, and foundation mathematics. It might come as a surprise that children are coding as early as 5 years of age. The major goal when we teach very young kids is to impart them with the logical abilities, foundational thinking to build stuff, coding principles using …