Programmers of tomorrow wanted

First Code Week Jena offers children and young people insights into the digital world

Those who master programming languages can actively shape our digital cosmos and our daily lives. To enable children and young people to discover these languages creatively and individually, the first Code Week Jena invites young people to get to know the world of programming. From 10 - 25 October 2020, digital and technical skills can be acquired in a playful way at numerous events.

Whether website and app creation, robotics workshops or programming mini-computers - Code Week Jena offers children and young people between the ages of 5 and 18 a wide range of opportunities to find out how much fun, creativity and teamwork there is in programming in face-to-face workshops or virtually from the comfort of their own living room .

In a world that is increasingly controlled by program codes, we not only need digitally competent users, but also digitally competent young makers,

says Domenique Dölz, Cluster Manager of the Jena Digital initiative and initiator of the first Jena Code Week.

In order to supplement the digital skills taught in schools, we need extracurricular activities such as Code Week. In this way, we bundle individual local initiatives and thus achieve greater awareness of this important topic.

A wide range of hands-on activities await children and young people

Co-organizer of Code Week Jena is witelo e. V. - the association for scientific and technical learning locations in Jena.

witelo and the Jena Student Research Center already offer a wide range of workshops, research clubs and working groups on the topics of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology throughout the year , including as part of EU Code Week. With Code Week Jena, a format has now been created that will strengthen the topic of digital education in the long term and further anchor it in the region,

Managing Director Dr. Christina Waltheris pleasedabout the establishment of the action weeks.

Code Week Jena is made possible by the support of the Erfurt-Weimar-Jena-Weimarer Land impulse region as well as numerous companies, initiatives, schools, universities and associations that have prepared a wide range of hands-on activities for the action weeks. Initiatives, schools, universities, companies, organizations, youth centers, libraries, cultural institutions such as museums, but also committed individuals can still register their events.

The past few months have shown us how important digital skills and online offerings are for successfully shaping our everyday lives in business, school and leisure. I am therefore particularly pleased that we are now making the Europe-wide Code Week visible in Jena for the first time,

emphasizes Wilfried Röpke, Managing Director of JenaWirtschaft and board member of witelo e. V., the importance of Code Week for the business and living location.

Further information and registration can be found here.

Background

About the Jena Code Week:

Code Week Jena takes place as part of the Europe-wide Code Week, a grassroots movement and open event series that has been teaching children, young people and adults the joy of technology, creativity and teamwork in tens of thousands of individual events since 2013. Following the success of Code Week Hamburg established in 2016, Jena will now also open its own Regio Hub, taking the opportunity to support existing initiatives and promote digital skills and inventiveness. Code Week Jena is organized by JENA Digital and witelo e. V. and supported by the Impulsregion Erfurt, Jena, Weimar, Weimarer Land.

About Jena Digital:

The Digital Economy & Science Cluster is an initiative of JenaWirtschaft and aims to create an ecosystem in which players from business, science, politics and administration find optimal framework conditions to drive innovation and establish Jena as one of the digital hotspots in Germany.

About witelo e. V.:

witelo is the Jena cooperation association for the promotion of science and technology education in Jena. witelo provides teachers, pupils and parents with an overview of the opportunities for extracurricular learning and aims to provide them with targeted support in their search for projects and topics. A further aim is the cooperation and promotion of existing offers as well as the promotion and support of new initiatives. Furthermore, the quality of the offers is ensured and further developed together with the project partners. Since 2014, witelo has been offering workshops and study groups at schools in Jena and lends out workshop kits for lessons and study groups. witelo is funded by Carl Zeiss AG, the City of Jena, JenaWirtschaft and Jena companies and is supported by witelo e. V.