"Coding Tomorrow"s Artificial Intelligence Training Have Started

IN 2022, THE "CODING TOMORROW" PROJECT WILL PROVIDE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING TO 3,000 YOUNG STUDENTS

As part of the "Coding Tomorrow", a Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Association joint project, students aged 14-17 across Turkey have started receiving Artificial Intelligence (AI) training. With the training held to enhance the AI-based coding competencies of youngsters, it is aimed to reach 3,000 youngsters with 60 trainers by the end of the year.

Implemented by Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Association, the "Coding Tomorrow" project continues to prepare children and youth for the digital future. As part of the project, which reached over 225,000 children across Turkey, high school students aged 14-17 started to receive AI-based coding training. To date, 40 young students have joined the training, which started in December 2021 following the completion of the trainers' training. In the online training that continues for 16 hours, 4 days a week , youngsters are provided with information about Python programming language, basic machine learning, simple regression, multiple regression, decision tree, and random forest regression applications. With Coding Tomorrow AI training, it is aimed to reach 3,000 young students with 60 trainers by the end of 2022.

While evaluating the AI training, Mr. Hasan Süel, the Chair of Vodafone Turkey Foundation, stated:

"As Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Association, we eagerly continue our 'Coding Tomorrow' project, which we launched six years ago to raise generations ready for the digital future. When we were considering how to use technology for humanity's good and respond to a social need of society, we decided to do a project first to increase people's technology literacy and their tendency to use technology, starting with children. Thus, in collaboration with the Habitat Association, we started teaching our children aged 7-14 to code, the digital world language, in August 2016. With our 'Coding Tomorrow' project, we aim to contribute to raising a generation that produces, not consumes. Until today, we have given coding training to over 225,000 children in 81 provinces. We constantly update our educational content. Besides Scratch training, we continue to improve our children's digital competencies with digital training on various subjects. In this regard, we have started to offer AI training for high school students aged 14-17. Our goal is to develop youngsters' AI-based coding competencies. We also aim to reach 3,000 students in a year. To reach our goal, we provide our training regularly, every week. We welcome all young students interested in AI to our training."

Mr. Sezai Hazır, the Board Chair of Habitat Association , also stated:

We feel right happy and proud of constantly expanding the scope of our Coding Tomorrow project, which we implemented with the collaboration of the Vodafone Turkey Foundation and touches the lives of thousands of children. The previous years have shown us that learning how to code is as important as literacy. With our project, we develop processes that guide our country's digital transformation, thereby contributing to the prepare our youngsters for the digital world of the future. This project aims to provide our Python-based AI training designed for high school students aged 14-17 to 3,000 youngsters this year. Thus, we form partnerships with various vocational high schools to provide all the support we can give so that these students can show interest in software and coding. I believe that with this valuable project, whose contents we enrich and will be leveraged by more children, we will support the raising of individuals who transform and lead nations. Because we believe the 21st century will be a century that will allow individuals to transform and lead societies with their digital skills."

The Clubhouse Network collaboration

In Coding Tomorrow, young students aged 14-17 receive mobile application development, gaming, and Artificial Intelligence training. On the other hand, as part of the collaboration with The Clubhouse Network, among the world's largest education platforms, made two years ago, it is planned to include youngsters in these groups by joining The Clubhouse Network in online environments. The goals also involve including some vocational high schools in AI training and enhancing the digital competencies of employable youth.

The project has reached over 225,000 children

Within the "Coding Tomorrow" project, children between 7-14 across Turkey receive theoretical and practical training by volunteer trainers on various subjects, including the introduction to programming, algorithm logic, application development, storytelling, and game development. Our training helps our children understand programming, work to bring out their creativity, create their imaginary worlds, and produce their games. As part of the "Coding Tomorrow", which has reachedover 225,000 children in 81 provinces to date, 6,6 million TRY of social value was obtained in one year, and each investment of 1 TRY for the project yielded a social return of 4,4 TRY.