Our mission is about empowerment. Today, we challenged a group of dedicated engineers from CLP 中電 Power Generation to roll up their sleeves, apply Design Thinking concepts and write some code.
Despite being engineers, most of them had no experience in coding. It was great to see everyone step out of their comfort zone. And of course, the touch-friendly Microsoft Surface made working with coding blocks easier than ever.
Coders are Creators! Do you know you can make art with code? Excited to be at Chinese International School today to deliver a workshop on Processing, a language for visual arts (https://processing.org). We were blown away by students’ enthusiasm and creativity!
Delighted to work with leaders from China Mobile Hong Kong to "light up" their future readiness through Design Thinking and Coding.
Wonderful meeting and exchange with George Chen from Facebook and Byambajargal Ayushjav, founder of Faro Foundation and one of Forbes' 30-under-30 Social Entrepreneurs in Asia. It’s always amazing to meet, learn and share with people from all over the world who share our passion for technology and education.
Excited to speak with students and faculty members from Imperial College Business School about our story and Digital Transformation. They also learned to build their first program on micro:bit! Super impressed by their enthusiasm to learn about coding and why it is important for our next generation.
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of 明報, 30+ staff from editorial, sales, marketing and IT formed teams to learn about coding and build mood lamps aka 明燈 powered by micro:bit. We are super impressed by their teamwork, can-do spirit and attention to details!
Cobo Academy is a Gold Sponsor of ESF Computing Conference held on Mar 1, 2019 in South Island School. Thanks for the FULL-house workshops on topics including "Blitz Building Your First Website", "Game Design 101 with JavaScript" and "Google Auto-Complete Guessing Game in Python".
Dream BIG and make it happen! Excited to be a Dream Backer to support this amazing group of P4-6 students from Hong Kong Baptist Convention Primary School to build smart diapers for elderlies powered by micro:bit. The IoT-based smart diapers send SMS alerts to caretakers when they have to be changed to improve hygiene and health. The moisture data collected will facilitate better resource allocation to improve service quality. Stay tuned for more!
Humbled and excited to have the opportunity to run a micro:bit team-building workshop for A.S. Watson Group where Data Science and Commercial teams “connected” to build smart IoT-based replenishment systems. Technical members were challenged to wear mittens to keep them away from keyboards so they had to talk non-technical members through the building and coding process. What a great demonstration of passion, commitment, teamwork, innovation and perseverance!
Cobo Academy is honored and proud to support Spark-athon 2019, British Council's 1st ever official microbit Hackathon in the region, where 18 schools and 100+ students unleashed their creativity and teamwork to design and build amazing wearable technology products.
What a fun and meaningful workshop filled with lights and music! And wonderful demonstration of Teamwork, Creativity and Growth Mindset! We teamed up with HandsOn Hong Kong to transform 160+ Hewlett-Packard volunteers into programmers to build some amazing micro:bit Christmas Lamps at their regional Sales Leadership Kickoff Conference in HK! All micro:bits, neopixels, speakers and parts will be donated to local low-income students to embark their programming learning journey.
“Digital education in Hong Kong is very rigid, and children don’t have enough room for thinking and exploring new things,” Chan told the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Such thought inspired him to co-establish an educational business to “empower children to become future ready” with STEM and coding education, he said in an interview.
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Software and robots are increasingly more capable of handling tasks previously carried out by humans, and this is just the beginning! Bill Gates has predicted that by 2030, millions of jobs will be taken over by robots. However, this also opens up a lot of new and exciting opportunities, especially around the use of technology. In the digital economy where almost every company is a software company, coding is the new language of technology every child should master. Harris Chan, a former Microsoft Engineer, is committed to make a difference with his Hong Kong based STEM education start-up.
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Pleasure to meet with Natalie Chan from Own Academy who shares the same passion for making a difference in education! Education is more than just grades and the most demanded skills in the future are not taught at schools today, which is our inspiration behind helping kids become future ready. There is a long way to go, and it all begins with nurturing the right mindset in parents and children. Stay tuned for our joint efforts in shaping future creators and innovators!
Thanks everyone for stopping by our booth at International School Festival today! Excited to see overwhelming interests in STEM and coding from parents, partners and schools!
