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 standardised test schools and educators use to identify gifted and talented students. In the earlier days, the only way to identify gifted students was by school grades, […]
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Coding As A Playground is a book on how young children can build cognitive and social emotional skills by engaging in learning computer programming and computational thinking. The book is authored by Marina Umaschi Bers, Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and she co-developed the Scratch Jr. programming language in
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We take a USB drive, plug it in our computer or TV, and voila! We transfer the files or play from the drive. So, how is it that computers or digital devices are able to talk to each other? Essentially, devices talk to each other by connections between ports. We use ports to connect to
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The above image of this post was made by me using an artificial intelligence software, Deep Dream Generator. Deep Dream is a neural network based computer program written by a computer vision engineer at Google. It is a remarkable feat that an AI software has created this image with great accuracy and visual elements, and
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Computers use binary code to communicate all information, and we have a fun way to teach binary code to kids. Binary code is a stream of 1’s and 0’s. A byte has 8 bits with 1’s and 0’s. Alphabets are also represented using binary code in computers. For example, capital A, shown in binary code
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Computer Science has literally changed the world forever in the last 30 years. And coding for kids has actually become as essential as mathematics for kids in today’s world. It is probably appreciated a bit more because it enforces kids to learn mathematics practically, while mathematics itself sometimes most of us don’t learn practically at
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We’re introducing a fun course to initiate kids to coding/programming and at the same time to let the children have an exciting and fun learning experience about space physics that they’ll remember forever. This is a very short Space Program course for kids (15 days) and it is specifically designed for younger children who want
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Computer Science is a beautiful subject that has many areas of knowledge that a child will start to learn, and it has mathematics well intertwined in it. Introducing various coding courses for kids is absolutely fine and in fact essential, but putting too much pressure on them is not. We typically have students start with
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Mathematics can be found everywhere and it is deeply ingrained into everything around us. But, it is not easy to know the beauty of this subject. It is very much like learning to code, the process could be sometimes daunting when not taught in the right way, but once you learn the art of coding
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IOI is an International Olympiad Competition in Informatics (Computer Science). Each country sends 4 participants to this international competition with 1 or 2 participants as reserves. Each country has their own process on how they select these top 4 participants that represent the respective country at the IOI. Each country has a series of qualifying
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