Between school, sports, part-time jobs, and extra curricular, our kids are busy. Meanwhile, as parents, we’re always juggling their activities while also looking to the future to ensure they’re choosing the best paths for themselves. It’s a delicate balance: how do you pick activities that are affordable, engaging and can prepare your child for their future?

Hatch Coding Prepares Your Kids for the Future

Coding is the language your computer speaks. It connects every command to create every program you use. It’s only recently that coding has become a mainstream activity that appeals to all genders, classes and ages. There are many real-world benefits to your child learning programming skills at a young age.

Look no further than Hatch Coding.

With Hatch, kids learn:

• Real programming skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Research skills
• Leadership
• Team building
• Creativity

Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” - Steve Jobs

3 Ways Your Child Can Learn to Code at Home

If this is your introduction to coding, or you aren’t super comfortable with tech, you may feel leery of signing your child up for something you don’t understand. However, with Hatch Coding you can rest easy knowing your child is learning a lifelong skill and it isn’t breaking your bank.

• Prime@Home: Just like the end result you expect when you sign your child up for piano lessons, Prime@Home has the end goal of achieving results. Within Prime a student learns how to build games, websites and mobile apps where the completion of the activity results in something visual. Prime@Home appeals to children, teens and adults.

• Alpha@Home: Alpha@Home has the end result of non-visual, math-focused programming which leads to data science and machine learning. The goal is to output something non-visual based on a calculation engine.
• AlphaPlus@Home: The AlphaPlus stream is currently in development, but was created specifically for teens and adults. It follows the same pathway as Prime and Alpha but each project is much more extensive (20-40 hours per project). The goal of any project within Alpha Plus is to build a game or other system and an artificial intelligence system to learn how to play the game. Some example projects might be Connect 4, Image Recognition or Checkers. The end result is a program that can play a game or run through an activity.

There is extensive research on the benefits of learning a new skill early on. Early brain development has a lasting impact on a child’s ability to learn. In fact, 90% of brain growth happens before kindergarten. Research has stated that learning a new language is easier for younger children as the brain is still developing and growing. The same can be said for learning to read and write code. Coding is an extension of writing - the ability to code allows you to “write” all sorts of things. Help prepare your child for their future and keep them engaged with Hatch@Home.