Kids Life Skills is one of the organizations that took part in the 2023 edition of Meet and Code. Here's a look back at their experience and the three projects funded.
'When we were young, our parents didn't know which skills we'd need growing up.' Many of the jobs available today didn't even exist 15-20 years ago. Skills like independent thinking and autonomous learning are therefore extremely important because they allow a young person to adapt to the challenges they come across. Coding represents the perfect combination of such fundamental skills, while pushing creativity and co-operation to whole new levels.
Kids Life Skills aims to help prepare your child for their future to give them the best odds in an increasingly digital world.
Kids Life Skills was launched in December 2018 with the aim of teaching children the key skills they will likely need to become successful in the tech-heavy future. Co-founder Ronen Event Tzur says: “Technical skills such as computer programming and life skills such as self-learning and problem solving are becoming more and more important across most professions. We focus on teaching these skills to our children to help prepare them for the challenges and opportunities in their future careers.”
Find more about their projects here.
This was one of our biggest events to date of course it being the 5th year of Kids Life Skills existence. We wanted it to be a special day and planned 4 activities for all age groups 4-13. We were able to guide the different groups through all activities in their preferred language and each participant left more curious and excited and was of course awarded a well deserved prize. The same principle applied here in that we aimed to expose the participants to logical thinking techniques in a fun and engaging way. Furthermore it is important also for us to inspire kids to work as a team and learn from each other as well as us learning from their insight and creativity. (by Ronen Even Tzur, Kids Life Skills Founder).
1. Back to School Event - September 2023. See the event here.
Every year Cloche d'Or, one of the biggest shopping centers in Luxembourg hosts the 'Back to School' event. Kids Life Skills is happy to participate as this is one of the best occasions to present their Association and the exciting work that they do to parents and kids alike. They were able to plan some fun activities for the kids to try out. The aim here was to introduce logical thinking, basic programming and building sequences through fun and playful activities. The following challenges were on offer on the day:
2. Fun Family Tech Day - September 2023. See the event here.
For this event Kids Life Skills organized numerous activities for the 4 - 13 year age groups to try out and get a feel for the workshops that they offer during the year. Participants were introduced to a wide variety of robots that we work with. The focus of these stations was learning how to program and develop sequences as well as promoting logical thinking all the whilst making it a fun and engaging exercise. The various activities were made up as follows:
3. Kids Life Skills 5th Birthday - November 2023. See the event here.
This was one of their biggest events to date of course it being the 5th year of Kids Life Skills existence. They wanted it to be a special day and planned 4 activities for all age groups 4-13. They were able to guide the different groups through all activities in their preferred language and each participant left more curious and excited and was of course awarded a well deserved prize. The same principle applied here in that they aimed to expose the participants to logical thinking techniques in a fun and engaging way. Furthermore it is important also for them to inspire kids to work as a team and learn from each other as well as us learning from their insight and creativity. On this day they had the following activities in store:
Frans - français
nederlands - dutch