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Basics of Ethical Hacking for Youngsters
Every computing device, hardware and software, is vulnerable, and at UnicMinds, we teach youngsters all the basics required to understand cyber security and ethical hacking in a comprehensive way including …
Probability of picking two red balls with and without replacement
The first two cases are without replacement and the next two cases are with replacement. Case 1: Let’s say there is an urn with 5 red balls and 50 green …
The Intuition of Integration
When you open a tap to fill the bucket, the bucket filled with water is the integration of the tap flow of water over time taken to fill the bucket. …
Why is Third Grade an Important Time for Kids?
Third grade is a benchmark year for kids in the primary grades, and students and teachers alike feel that a bit. There is an age-old saying that until the third …
Helping Kids Learn Coding Online
Every child should learn to code if we want to prepare them for success. Coding develops their logical and math skills and helps acquire valuable aptitude and problem-solving skills that …
Peter Pig Game in Python
In this game, there will be two players – Player 1 and Player 2. If the total number of turns is 10, then Player 1 will roll the dice until …
Gifted Testing & Gifted Programs for Kids
Gifted testing starts early, as early as Kindergarten, but testing children as young as two is largely not considered necessary and accurate. Gifted testing is considered more accurate between the …
NWEA MAP Growth Test for K-12
What is the NWEA MAP Test? The NorthWest Evaluation Association is a not-for-profit research organization that creates assessments for K-12 students. The NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is a …
IQ Tests for Kids in 2023
Intelligence Quotient or Cognitive Assessment tests (IQ tests) are used to determine a child’s learning capability by identifying their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. They largely test a child’s reasoning skills, …
Financial Literacy for Kids
Financial Literacy is important for kids. Learning how to manage money is something that schools don’t teach, and it is something that parents too often think that it is not …
The Geometry inside Hard-Disks
Today, hard-drives or hard-disks store an incredible amount of data. I remember when I did my computer-science engineering, my hard-disk was 2GB and my RAM was 32MB. Today, in the …
What is the OLSAT Exam?
What is the OLSAT? Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT) is a reasoning test for K-12 school children that independent school districts conduct to assess the eligibility for the gifted and …
Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security for Juniors
According to a study published by Common Sense Media, approximately 53% of children use a smartphone by age 11. The study also found that children between the ages of 8 …
What is the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10)?
What is the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10)? Stanford Early School Achievement Test, also called Stanford-10 or SAT-10, is a set of standardized achievement tests used by independent school districts in …
Types of Questions on the CogAT Exam
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a reasoning and logic test for kids. Essentially, the test covers logical, reasoning and verbal ability across numericals, problem-solving, patterns, pictures, puzzles, sentence completion, verbal …
How to do well on the CogAT?
Published by Riverside Insights, the CogAT was originally developed in the 1950s and has since gone through many updates. The most recent versions of the test are Form 7 and Form …
Using Waves to Communicate
In this post, we will understand in detail how we use waves for our daily communications. If you’re serious about science, this is a really fundamental topic to get a …
Programming Tic-Tac-Toe game in Java
We all know the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game we play by drawing on paper or as a board game. In this post, we will see how we can write a program …
AI can be broken into two broad categories – narrow AI and general AI. Narrow AI is more like solving a fixed problem (in multiple possible ways, of course) using …
The Value of Compassion in Teaching
Educators don’t often talk about compassion and love for children. This is because essentially we live in a world that mostly prizes only quantifiable consumerism and materialistic individual achievements. The …
Coding a simple Rock, Paper, Scissors Game in Python
Rock, paper scissors is played between two people, both of them choosing one out of the three options. Then, according to certain rules, one of the two is declared the …
Coding for Kids and Teens – Building Core Skills
It is easy and normal to think coding is only for adults who are working for technology companies. It will truly surprise you if you sit in one of our …
Making a scrolling background in Scratch
In this post, we shall see how to make a scrolling background or an animated moving background for any game in Scratch. The scrolling background or moving background provides a …
Free CogAT Practice Tests for Kids
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 …
Block Coding Courses for Kids
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 …
Completely Free Coding Tests for Kids
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 …
Two Player Maze Runner Game In Scratch
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 …
Internet runs on under-sea cables!
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 …
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 …
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 …
Is Coding relevant for non-STEM subjects?
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 …
Learn Scratch Coding – Make a Basketball Game in Scratch!
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 …
Young Coders Program
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. …
Summer Coding Courses for Kids
As we head into the summer in the United States in two months, families and children look out for some time away from schoolwork and to some vacation. In India, …
A robot that can “smell” using a biological sensor
A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a biological sensor. The sensor sends electrical signals as a response to …
Building Mario Game in Scratch
Scratch is a simple and great GUI-based platform invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT for children to learn coding while building games and apps. It is a great …
3D Printing Basics for Kids
3D printing was a fancy term in 2013, and I first overheard that IIT Bombay Computer Science Department is getting one of the first 3D printers in India. And I …
Encryption and Decryption – Explained to Kids & Teenagers!
In this article, we shall understand how encryption and decryption work using public/private keys. Working of Encryption & Decryption An old school example to understand public key and private key …
Coding promotes Critical Thinking in Kids & Teens
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgement while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is among the most important causes of change in …
How spatial thinking could help children learn maths – and go on to use it in their careers?
This article is originally published in The Conversation here. Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are …