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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 …
Adding Assets in your Unity game
If you’re coding games in Unity, then it is a good idea to visit the Unity Asset Store. Unity Assets are high quality game assets – sprites, animations, and 3D …
AI for Kids – Explained Intuitively!
Let’s start with an example that demonstrates what artificial intelligence (AI) is for kids. If you ask kids how many elephants are in the above image, then most of the …
Coding for kids, tweens, and students – Is it required?
Coding for kids, tweens, and students is an absolute essential today. And, I am not saying that because we teach coding! Let’s understand why it is an absolute essential in …
Coding for Kids, apart from Scratch and Python
Coding and Algorithms is essentially about telling a computer what to do. Like most skills in life, programming involves: So, what is really important for anyone learning programming is not …
Should you choose 1:1 online tutoring for your kids?
Tutoring has always been a prevalent support system for children in countries like India. In the last few years, online tutoring has gained a lot of popularity and effectiveness across …
The Benefits of Gifted & Talented Education Program
This post walks us through the major benefits of gifted and talented education programs offered in schools.
Why do we need Operating Systems? – Explained for Kids!
To explain operating systems for kids, an operating system is a set of programs that enable other regular programs (like a browser, spreadsheet, gaming software, etc.) to use the computer …
How Minecraft teaches kids to code?
Minecraft is a game with simple graphics and a blocky appearance. In the world of Minecraft coding for kids, you use different 1×1 types of blocks to make everything from …
How do devices talk to each other – Part 2
In the Part 1 of this article, we learnt that devices connect with each other using different wired ports. Each of these ports are either serial or parallel in communications. …
Why Should Kids Learn Roblox?
Roblox coding for kids refers to the process of kids writing code and developing interactive games with multiple characters, objects and graphics using the Roblox Studio Editor. Roblox is essentially …
Developing Leisure Reading (Skills) in Children
There is no doubt that developing leisure reading in children opens doors for real individual development. Reading skills for children opens new avenues to learn about various domains, develop imagination …
Everything About 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 standardised test …
Coding As A Playground – Short Book Review
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 …
How do devices talk to each other?
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 …
DALL-E and Deep Dream – AI for Kids
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 …
Teach binary code to kids using music
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 …
Coding Competitions For Kids
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 …
Space Program Course for kids: Exploring Space with Programming (15 days)
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 …
Comprehensive Range Of Coding Courses For Kids
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 …
Mathematics That Children Need To Learn For Computer-Science Applications
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 …
About Coding Olympiad and National Qualifying Exams
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 …
Should my child start with Scratch or Python or JavaScript?
If your child is starting coding, then should your child start with Scratch or Python (block-based) or JavaScript (block-based)?
What are Stack and Heap Memory and How the variables in a program are stored in these two memories?
When we write a program in any language, we declare a lot of variables, arrays, objects in various sections of the program such as the main function, global section, classes, …