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The Code-it Hacks' team is as unconventional as our teaching methods and curriculum. We have put together a team with a holistic mindset. All our team members have sound teaching skills, technology skills and a deep understanding of child psychology.
Being a Microsoft school, every member of the team goes through vigrous training and is required to attain the following technical certification where applicable:
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Microsoft Innovative Educator
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Teach Creative coding through Games & Apps
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SCRATCH
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Raspberry Pi instructor
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Python
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Making with Microbits
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Arduino
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Makey Makey
CREDENTIALS
Mandatory Pedagogy certifications in:
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Amplifying Student Voice
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Problem Based Learning
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Digital citizenship
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21st century learning design
All our educators and mentors are required to regularly provide Vulnerability Sector Check & CPR certification.
Shirin Merchant
Program Director
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Shirin began her humble beginnings in the field of Data and Analytics as a consultant in Toronto. With over 20 years of experience in planning, architecting and delivering a wide range of data and analytics solutions along with managing teams of data scientists and engineers, she has now ventured off to tackle her toughest clients: Children!
Teaching digital literacy to youth has been a very rewarding journey for her. She believes in imparting STEM skills to her students in a play-based yet very practical manner. Using design thinking principles, students are taught the art of coding from ideation to implementation. From the basics of graphical coding to the more advanced discipline of Artificial Intelligence, children learn the foundational skills via play and then dare to imagine their own possibilities.
"In my classroom, we only follow one rule: we challenge ourselves to break them all - Any one can code, just bring your imagination!. "