The objective of the project was to help schools and teachers provide more opportunities for young people to learn coding skills. Schools are often unable to get their students started with coding which is why we wanted to deliver a solution that not only helps teachers learn coding skills on their own, we also wanted to explain to them how to teach coding to their students and we wanted to help them integrate coding tasks into their normal classes. We wanted to reach a lot of teachers during the project in order to make this objective count. When more teachers are able to add coding to more classes, Europe has a better chance to meet the growing need for people with coding skills, and our young people will have more tools for creating a satisfying life for themselves.
We applied for the project because we saw a clear need to get more programming into schools. Computers have evolved and have become part of not only almost everyone’s work life but also of almost every other aspect of life such as entertainment, health, finances, shopping, traveling, etc. They are in our phones, our watches, our cars, our home appliances, our entertainment systems, and even in our work tools. In all EU countries, we have a rising demand for skilled workers who can program computers; however, the gap between the skills needed and those with the skills is growing every year. The problem is not the willingness of young people to gain coding skills; the main problem is that we don’t have enough teachers who can support the learning of coding skills and in most EU countries we don't have the curricula that promote these skills. A large number of young people who learn programming do so by teaching themselves. However, this means that many young people are missing out The project's goal was to address this problem by providing an easy way for teachers to learn coding withan easy integration into school lessons. We made these lessons easily accessible on YouTube.