In this tech-driven world, coding has become an integral part of our day to day lives and kids are already exposed to advanced technologies such as smartphones, laptops, smart home devices, etc.
Thus coding has become an important part of children’s education and it also helps them to learn various 21st-century skills like communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and many more. Unfortunately, not every school is teaching coding for kids but as a parent, you can help your kid to learn coding through after school coding and robotics programs.
After school coding and robotics classes help kids to understand more about the technologies rather than just using them.
If you are a parent looking for an engaging robotics and coding classes for your child near your location, Skyfi Labs Chicago, Illinois teaches coding and robotics for kids through a project-based curriculum.
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In these, after school classes, Kids are educated with STEM concepts. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics are incorporated into thier curriculum by building projects. They will learn STEM concepts by developing realtime projects. Below are the STEM programs that teach robotics and coding for kids in Chicago:
1. Coding programs for kids
After school coding classes for kids teaches coding for kids by building interactive applications, creating games, and animations. Teaching coding for kids helps them to acquire various life skills. As part of these coding classes, your child will develop coding projects such as cat runner, flappy bird game, ping pong, monster-killer, GPS application, etc. using scratch and MIT app inventor. Thus your kid will develop his/her first mobile application and game.
Learning to code assists kids understand the technology around them and make them think about how it works rather than just using it. Below are the coding classes for kids in Chicago:
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2. Robotics education for kids
Robotics is an engaging tool to teach kids. In these robotics classes, your kid will develop 4 C’s -Collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity by building robots. As kids are working in a team they will also develop leadership, social, and team-building skills. Your kid will build various STEM-robotics projects such as burglar alarm, smart plant watering system, smart water dispenser, and advanced robots like line follower robot, light following robot, obstacle following robot, and many more. Below are the robotics classes in Chicago which will bring out the engineer in your kid:
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3. STEM Drone coding classes for kids
Flying a Drone and having one for themselves is always a dream for many kids. But as a parent, we are always more concerned about Kid’s safety. These drone classes make your kids dream come true by making them build and fly a drone. As part of this class, your kid will learn to program and fly the drone using scratch coding. Also, your kid will perform various acrobatic stunts by programming the drone. Open sesame, chuck to fly, reactive drone, phone clone, etc are some projects that your kid will develop in these drone classes. Below are the drone coding classes for kids in Chicago:
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All these classes teach STEM for kids in a unique way by providing them with fun hands-on activities. Also, after each and every class kids are assigned a fun task related to the class that he/she attended. These fun tasks help them to understand how the concept is applied in real life.
Skyfi Labs also offers online robotics and coding programs for kids where the classes are conducted in private 1-1 sessions thus your kid will get more attention. Also, your kid can attend the classes comfortably right from home.
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Below are the after school places and activities where you can hang out with your kids and family.
Water Works Indoor water park - 505 North Springinsguth Road, Schaumburg, IL
This is the best nearby place to take your kid during summer. This place is suitable for kids who love adventure as it holds three small and safe slides.
Wonderworks - 6445 West North Avenue, Oak Park, IL
With 30 minutes of a car ride, you can easily reach this place. This place features a creative play of over 6000 Sq.ft. Kids can perform the following activities - harvest fruits and veggies, they can become an artist in the art studio, dance with other kids, etc.
DuPage Children’s Museum - 301 North Washington Street Naperville, IL
Best place for museum lovers that lets your kid create, explore, build, discover, wonder, play, and think. The art studio lets your kid build using real tools and you can discover the powers and properties of water in AWEsome Energy.
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