Irene Pepit is our school lead educator for Zawadi Yetu in Mogotio, Kenya.

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Scratch is block-based programming built for kids.&nbsp;This week at Zawadi Yetu academy, we decided with the fifth graders that they are going to create their own project. The previous weeks they have been practicing combining blocks of code and so they were only making basic animationsThis week they started on their projects. Everyone in the class is really working hard to make sure that before the end of the term he/she must have created his/her game in scratch. First, i encourage them to use different sprites and now they are in the level of making their own sounds and inserting them in their gameI look forward to encouraging them to discover new things day by day for their game and presentable look. They are very happy that at the end each one of them will have his/her game.

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This week in Zawadi Yetu academy, students spend 30 minutes every day building their own video game in Scratch. By the end of the week, they will have completed a complete game.

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Nelly Cheboi is a celebrated social entrepreneur, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/nelly-cheboi/?sh=179de9a85764" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forbes 30 under 30</a> honoree, and<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/14/world/education-technology-recycling-kenya-poverty-cnnheroes/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CNN Hero</a>. After growing up in rural Kenya and lifting her family out of poverty, she focused on her community.

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Every Thursday, we all gather around on Zoom to share stories from the classroom. Every educator writes a story to share from their week about student achievement.

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Milka is our school lead educator in Saint Mary's Primary in Mogotio, Kenya.

Njeri, a class 4B pupil, made her whole class enjoy their coding lesson with Scratch today. When Evens was teaching grade 4 to code with Scratch. Since it was their first time coding and it was an introduction, they were not very active, so we did not expect much from that class.Then the next day, which was Wednesday, Evans saw the same class again, which was grade 4. I wanted them to do coding and scratch again so that they will remember what they learned. &nbsp;On that day there were some changes compared to the previous day. They were listening carefully and they also showed improvements.Njeri was the first student to make real progress with Scratch in grade 4. Surprisingly, she became the teacher in that group. Every student shouted her name, “Njeri, Njeri, kuja nionyeshe.” which was good and amazing.

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Grade 4 in Saint Mary's learned to code with Scratch this week. Their student teacher for the day, Njeri understood the lesson very well.

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Tyler Cinnamon is a American programmer and entrepreneur. He started TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi in 2018 to disrupt poverty with used IT devices.

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