Since 2016, the Passerelle (bridging programme) students at Digital Campus Lyon have been running robotics and coding workshops for primary-school children, a project in partnership with Fréquences Écoles and the Ldigital collective. The aim of this initiative is to introduce young children to digital culture and new technologies.

During the time set aside for after-school activities, students from Digital Campus Lyon, enrolled in the Passerelle “Web Project Management” programme, meet primary-school children and run workshops developed by the Fréquence Écoles association.

These activities focus more specifically on coding, programming, automation and robotics. The initiative also aims to test the ability of Digital Campus Lyon students to lead these workshops and to follow the teaching frameworks provided by the association.

Looking for schools training future professionals in the communications, media and digital sectors, the Fréquence Écoles association turned to Digital Campus Lyon and its students to find facilitators capable of passing on this interest in and appetite for digital to these young children. Following the success of the first trial, the initiative was rolled out to 2 schools in 2017: the Saint Sacrement school and the Pasteur school in Lyon.

More than 10 workshops will be run during February and March by the 2017 DC Passerelles cohort.

Programming, coding and automation are everywhere. Whether to detect diseases, assist people with reduced mobility or simply help us in our daily lives, new technologies are an integral part of our existence and are constantly developing. The proof lies in AI (artificial intelligence), exoskeletons and other inventions programmed to make our lives more pleasant and easier. Contrary to what one might think, children are not necessarily comfortable with new technologies, and even less so with solving technical problems. Thanks to this introduction, children can better understand the machines around them and how they work, in order to grasp them more easily, and perhaps even create their own in turn., For their part, the students of the Passerelles programme sum up this experience in a single sentence: “It is pedagogically very interesting to learn to step back and to put yourself in the children’s shoes in order to explain the principles of coding as clearly as possible.” Making things accessible is no easy task, but that is also what characterises a DC student: knowing how to pass on knowledge and learn in a clear and precise way., To find out more about the Code at School Initiative, discover our DCprojets.
After the success of the coding-workshop initiative in 2016, the experience was repeated in 2017, from February 9 to March 31, once again with the Passerelle - Web Project Management cohort of Digital Campus Lyon.

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