Since 2020, Algora in Norroy-le-Veneur has been teaching the basics of coding to children. There, during their weekly class, they make small robots that they learn to program, explains the founder of this school, Émilie Pindor.
They are everywhere around us: automatic vacuum cleaners, reversing radar, automatic doors… all these robots that we use every day and that we don’t need to understand how they work. In its robotics and programming school installed at the LLTI training center in Norroy-le-Veneur in the Moselle, Émilie Pindor raise awareness of computer programming and coding among children ages 6 and up. “The idea is not to give birth to developer vocations, but rather to give them the foundations so that they better understand the objects around them and not to be passive when using them.“, explains the founder of this school Algora.
No programming knowledge required
The establishment was born from the personal experience of its founder. Employed in a new technology company, it is back from an expatriate that Émilie Pindor decided to launch her school project in 2020 with her teacher husband. “Our children had compulsory programming lessons in the UK and we found nothing similar when we returned to Moselleshe says. In addition, I myself was faced with a lack of skills among French developers to join my company.“.
To register at Algora, no programming skills required. “We impart logical thinking, problem solving, computer language in English“, explains Émilie Pindor. The courses in his training center are given in the same format that extra-curricular activitiesduring holidays during training courses, at the end of the day or on Saturdays during training slots 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. During their training, children learn create a robot and improve it. A concrete success for the fifty students already registered.