Code Chautari

Many students in public schools of Nepal are finding themselves marginalized and excluded from future opportunities in the ICT field because they are digitally illiterate. So various interventions might be required at this point. Code Chautari is one of those interventions, an idea that, provided with a quality education on computer literacy and programming, students in public schools could develop the necessary skills empowering them to compete globally. Code Chautari is an after school program for public schools with a series of connected classes on Computer Literacy and Computational Thinking. Classes will run 5 days a week, with extended classes if necessary. Each class is about an hour long which encompasses PBL (Problem based learning) and hands-on learning approach. Students learn not from books or teachers, but experientially by doing on the computer itself. Objectives 1. Make kids digitally literate so that they can use digital tools and the internet to get information, knowledge and build other personal skills. 2. Build computational thinking and problem solving through programming/coding as a tool. Use programming as a tool to: - Build problem solving skills ○ Empower Self-directed learning - Build researching skills using digital tools to strengthen and broaden knowledge in any topic or subject 3. Provide exposure to the kids about programming so that they can try and decide for themselves if they see it as a subject/career they want to pursue in the future.