The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and Google have announced a new program which will train up to a quarter of a million public and private school students in computer programming skills.
The Computer Science (CS) First program, created by Google, is intended to give students in Abu Dhabi access to training in programming skills. The program is supported with training and capacity building for all Abu Dhabi ICT teachers and after-school coding clubs.
The program was initially offered to 30,000 students on September 2015 in grades 4, 5 and 9 across public schools, and will be offered to the rest of the public and private school students in other grades within two years.
The launch was attended by HE Dr Ahmed Mubarak Al Mazrouei, Secretary-General of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council; HE Dr Mugheer Al Khaili, Chairman of the Health Authority Abu Dhabi and member of the Executive Council who inaugurated the event; HE Saeed Eid Al Ghafli. Chairman of Department of Municipal Affairs and member of the Executive Council; HE Rashed Laheq Al Mansoori, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Center (ADSIC); HE Aref Al Awani, General Secretary of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council and Mohamad Mourad, Regional Director for Google MENA alongside important dignitaries from both ADEC and Google.
The intensive course will be embedded in the classroom equipping students with the basics of 'Scratch', a student-friendly programming language that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed. By learning to program with Scratch, students will learn to think productively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically.
These skills contribute to developing learners and knowledge creators across platforms, a key long-term growth engine expanding Abu Dhabi's internet ecosystem, while building a future talent pool to drive Abu Dhabi's innovative development.
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