More than 330 student coders across South East Cornerstone Public School Divisionwill showcase video games they developed in their classrooms in a series of Coding Quest Arcades from The Learning Partnership, including on Friday, May 4 at the Weyburn Comp School in the Cugnet Centre.
The Arcades are a culmination of Coding Quest, Canada’s largest classroom-based coding program. Guided by their teachers, students in Grades 4, 5 and 6 create their own computer games right in the classroom through coding, creative thinking and the application of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. South East Cornerstone is the first school district in the province to introduce the program into school curriculums.
Sponsored by Salesforce, with funding from the Government of Canada’s CanCode program, the program empowers students to gain coding and digital skills, helping to prepare them for an increasingly technology-driven workforce.
Students will showcase their own computer games, which they developed themselves through coding, creative thinking and the application of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. They will showcase a range of games, including Truck Trading. Dirt Bikeand Shark Attack.
The other coding events included one on May 1 at Redvers School and coming up on Monday, May 7 at Pleasantdale School in Estevan.
All three Arcade events will take place from about 12:25 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. The schools participating in Coding Quest include Carievale School, Carlyle Elementary School, Haig School, Lampman School, Lyndale School in Oungre, Maryfield School, Pleasantdale School, Queen Elizabeth School, Redvers School, Wawota Parkland School and Yellow Grass School.
