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Codeweek Baden-Württemberg Sessions Report - Oct 2020

Updated: Mar 9, 2021


About Our Team:

MINT Genie - Focus and Motto

MINT Genie is a technology focused STEM activity center started in 2018.

Our motto is to help children get interested in the various branches of Science, Engineering and Math. Being creative and intuitive in a future surrounded by technology is the way forward.


Q. Why are we participating in Code Week?

We are always looking for opportunities to share our enthusiasm in technology with our community. We have been conducting various activities in Karlsruhe like:

  • Science workshops

  • Robotics classes (both online and in classroom)

  • Toy building workshops

  • Kangaroo Math Preparations

  • Speed-solving Rubik’s Cube workshops

  • Robotics Challenge program and after-school activities at European school, Karlsruhe

We found the Code Week initiative to be very much in-line with our goals and is also a great platform to reach-out to larger audience


Q. What did we offer?

During the “Code Week 2020”, we offered 2 online sessions on Arcade Game Development in English and Deutsch where the children learnt how to create simple Arcade-style games using block programming. This course did not need any background in programming. More details below:


Links for the courses:


Some of the example games that were created during the session:



Some Pictures from the event:






Q. How did the participants like it?

Children are only addicted to playing games, but the idea that they can create their own games, share it with friends and have fun is a powerful way of learning.

There was a lot of enthusiasm from the kids and we also received great personal feedback from parents telling that their kids have been building their own games during the recent holidays.


Our Impressions about Code Week BW 2020

We are extremely satisfied with the super-quick support during the registration of teams and sessions and we were also provided all information to set up and get the classes going. The team was very helpful in responding to our questions and it feels great to be working with a like-minded community initiative. We really appreciate the effort of the teams and would like to continue working with Code Week in future. We would be excited to collaborate and work with teams having similar programs and participate in this movement to support children and prepare them for the future!!!


How to reach us

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Proudly supporting Code‌ ‌Week‌ Baden-Württemberg ‌2020


It feels like home when you hear about like-minded initiaties out there these days. Thanks to a notification from our Team, we learnt about Code Week Baden-Wurttemberg and were just in time to support the cause with few of our Workshops.

To start with, we are offering the "Arcade Game Development" Workshop in both English and Deutsch on 16th and 21st respectively both starting at 16:30 for 90 minutes. This would be a great intro into some programming concepts as well as gaming.


You can register for FREE here:


A huge thanks and shoutout to the Code Week BW team for quickly responding and setting up the courses. We have already started receiving entries and I can feel the enthusiasm building. Checkout https://bw.codeweek.de for more events.


About Code Week:

Code Week is a grass-roots movement that celebrates creativity, problem solving and collaboration through programming and other tech activities. The idea is to make programming more visible, to show young, adults and elderly how you bring ideas to life with code, to demystify these skills and bring motivated people together to learn.


This totally matches our Motto and Mantra and we are excited to be working with Code Week Team

#CodeEU #CodeDE, @CodeweekEU, @CodeweekGermany

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Emotional finish of 1st Batch and info about next-steps

27th Sep 2020 was a memorable day!!! It was the last day of our 3-month workshop and while I was doing a quick recap of all the topics we had learnt, I noticed a glow in the eyes of our students - a feeling of "Yes, I remember that" and "Oh ya, we learnt this too".


During one of my sessions, I had shown some funny clips from my favourite movie "Johnny 5" and when I showed it again, I could see them smile Ear-to-Ear. I feel even more motivated to start a next-level workshop with more advanced topics for these children

(Psst... Planning is underway for next-level)


As we mentioned last time - we are getting closer to the start date of 2nd Batch of "Rule the Robotz" Workshop. We understand that parents would have a lot of questions about the content of the course and to answer them, are we are going to conduct an info session.





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