Tiny Thinkers!

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Candice is the Director of Coding Lab®. She heads the operations and community engagement divisions and has worked with schools and organisations to bring programming to children.

As a mother of 2 preschoolers, she is passionate about imparting Computational Thinking to kids and strongly believes that programming is a must-have skill for every kid in todays economy.

Thinzar is currently an undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She likes working with children and discovered her passion for teaching through her volunteer experience as a tutor to children during her school years. She hopes to be able to continue imparting knowledge to students as a teacher throughout her career. As an educator at Coding Lab, Thinzar has discovered the importance of computational thinking in different areas of life, not just in coding. She believes it should be a skill learnt since young and wishes to impart computational thinking skills to children through Tiny Thinkers.

Pooja is a currently a Year 2 Biomedical Engineering student at National University of Singapore (NUS). She enjoys interacting with children and finds it crucial for children to develop their computational thinking skills and capabilities from a young age. As the logistics in-charge of Tiny Thinkers, Pooja takes responsibility for the distribution of computational thinking starter kits to children of various ages, reinforcing the belief that computational thinking can be taught to students anytime, anywhere in an independent manner.

Lakshmi is currently an undergraduate pursuing a Business degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She loves to read, write and draw, while dabbling in entrepreneurship, technology and community service. Serving as a publicity officer in several events throughout her school years, she found her strengths in marketing and communications.

Through her internship at Coding Lab in education and marketing, she realised she could integrate her strengths while working towards a social cause she cares about, and she hopes to be able to reach out to more students through Tiny Thinkers, since she believes every student should learn computational thinking.

Jeffrey is currently a Year 3 Computational Biology student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He enjoys reading, backpacking and also exploring new ideas and thoughts. Mentors have played an important role in his life and now he wants to give back and make a difference in someone’s life. As the Head of Training and Development, Jeffrey seeks out to ensure that anyone interested in teaching is given the opportunity to be trained. He firmly believes that computational thinking is a powerful and fundamental skill that is worth teaching to anyone, especially children. As we nurture the next generation of thinkers and creators, he believes we can empower them to invent the future.

Irene is currently pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Through her studies in Engineering, she has discovered the importance of computational thinking and how important it is an effective problem-solving method. She feels that it is important that such skills can be cultivated at a young age so that these skills can help children as they grow into a volatile and increasingly complex world. Being the general secretary, she deals with communication with relative parties to ensure that the children have the starter kits to begin learning this skill.