Youngsters Will Produce Ideas and Projects for Art Within the Scope of the "Coding Tomorrow" Project

As part of "Coding Tomorrow", the joint project of Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Habitat Association, two simultaneous online events will be held for middle and high school students on February 26-27. Applications for the "AI Hackathon and Idea Marathon" events, which will allow youngsters to produce creative ideas and projects that bring together AI technologies and art, are open until February 23.

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 has reached over 228,000 children across Turkey, two simultaneous online events will be organized for middle and high school students on February 26-27. In the events to be organized under the name "AI Hackathon and Ideas Marathon", students will be expected to produce creative ideas and projects that combine AI technologies and art. While the hackathon will be organized for high school students, the idea marathon will be open to middle school students. Students can send their applications for the events via the form at https://form.jotform.com/220363762308958 until February 23.

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. With our 'Coding Tomorrow' project, we want to contribute to raising a generation that produces, not only consumes. Until today, we have given coding training to over 228,000 children in 81 provinces. Besides training, we aim to help our children and youngsters come up with solutions to concrete social problems with our online hackathons and idea marathons. Today, we use AI technologies in almost every sphere of life. Accordingly, the interest in this field is also increasing day by day. These technologies also influence art production with the new perspectives they offer. With the events to be held under 'AI Hackathon and Ideas Marathon', we will help our secondary and high school students combine AI technologies and art. While we will expect our middle school students who will attend our idea marathon to demonstrate their creative ideas, we will expect our high school students who will participate in the hackathon to develop their projects. We welcome applications from all youngsters who are enthusiastic about technology and art."

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. We help our children create innovative solutions to contemporary problems with hackathons and idea marathons. We are also introducing phyton-based AI to high school students with the AI training we launched in 2021. We continue to work to raise a generation that is not only the users of today's technologies but also the producers of tomorrow's technologies. We expect our children to produce innovative ideas for art with the 'AI Hackathon and Ideas Marathon' that we will organize."

Winners will be awarded technology gift cards

Students will be able to create their teams and apply for the "AI Hackathon and Ideas Marathon" events to be organized within the scope of the "Coding Tomorrow" project. The winner students of the hackathon and idea marathon will be awarded technology gift cards to help them develop their ideas and projects. While the winning teams of the idea marathon will be awarded technology gift cards worth 10,000 TRY, 6,000 TRY, and 4,000 TRY, respectively, the winning teams of the hackathon will be awarded technology gift cards worth 15,000 TRY, 10,000 TRY, and 5,000 TRY, respectively.

The project has reached over 228,000 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 228,000 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.