MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE WITH COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

The Beginning

LccL Coding Academy is one of the earliest Singapore-grown coding schools, established and known as The Kid Coders in 2012. Prior to its establishment, founder Juliana Ung had led tutorial classes on programming methodology, data structures and algorithms at the National University of Singapore during her senior years as a Computer Science major.

While working for a high-tech company in Stockholm, she experienced how relevant computational thinking is in all areas of the business and the far-reaching benefits computational technology brings to the world. Noticing that many of the young are becoming passive consumers of technology, she established The Kid Coders to expose children and teenagers to the creative world of coding and computational thinking, with the goal of transforming the younger generation into active creators.

Since then, hundreds of children and teenagers have trained and grown with The Kid Coders through its fun, engaging and hands-on holiday workshops; the most popular being the Game Programming Bootcamps and the Minecraft Coding classes. In the first years of The Kid Coders, she took time off from her full-time employment at an IT firm to run the holiday workshops.

The Calling

In 2013, while providing IT consultancy to the government of Rwanda, Juliana experienced first-hand underprivileged communities that could progress much more with quality education and exposure to info-communication science and technology. This experience became a calling and gave her a greater purpose.

Two years later, she took a leap of faith and left her IT career to concentrate on The Kid Coders. Her vision: to empower a new generation of creators, learners and teachers who make the world a better place with technology. She believes this requires providing students with uplifting learning environment and quality teaching, so that students undergo holistic growth in both technical skills and humanistic values.

With this, Juliana continues to refine The Kid Coders’ teaching methodology to include principles and practices from human potential technology, paying attention to the littlest details that give students the best learning experience.

The Expansion

In 2017, Juliana rebranded The Kid Coders to LccL Coding Academy to better represent its mission and inclusiveness to all age groups. LccL Coding Academy received additional capital investment, expanded its leadership team and introduced Prof Leong Hon Wai to its curriculum advisory. This is a hallmark growth, as the leadership and curriculum are strengthened further with veteran computer scientists with decades of experience in computational thinking.

These expansion efforts are geared towards providing the best coding and computational thinking education to our learners, as we prepare all for the digital future and empower the new generation to make a positive difference to the world.