Ages 5-9 is a great time to start introducing students to coding ideas and concepts as a fun activity!

Penguin Coding School offers classes for students as young as 5 years old. Elementary school is a great time to start introducing kids to computer programming concepts like variables, functions, loops and conditionals while having fun playing games and creating digital animation.

For the youngest students in Kindergarten, we offer Lego Robotics, a program where kids get used to working with blocks of code without knowing how to read or type. The LEGO Robotics uses drag-and-drop interfaces which allow kids to use colors and shapes to determine which blocks to use for a specific program. For this age group, classes are only offered in-person.

We offer two paths for kids ages 6 to 9: Minecraft Coding and Scratch Coding. Both coding education paths are built on top of a robust curriculum that gently introduces beginners to the basics, then builds up their confidence so they are increasingly able to tackle higher-level coding and programs on their own.

Scratch Coding and Minecraft Coding both use drag-and-drop interfaces, which allow for kids of all typing experience (including none!) to enjoy the classes.

Minecraft classes are great for kids who don’t necessarily like a blank canvas but are task-oriented (e.g. build a roller coaster with these parts, or build a castle). The classes are very popular with kids who are already familiar with Minecraft, but never knew they could do so much more by learning to code in Minecraft.

Scratch classes are great for kids looking for a blank canvas to build their own games and animations. Every Scratch coding class consists of our teachers guiding the students through a game or project that they build on their own. They can be as creative as they want in the characters, visual effects, music, and sounds they add.

For in-person coding classes, we offer different levels of Robotics through the Lego Robotics Kits. We use Lego WeDo, Lego Mindstorm, and Lego Spike Prime kits. Our robotics curriculum allows every student to build their own robot out of Legos and utilize drag-and-drop coding to program the robots.