The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 45 languages. No experience needed. Ages 4 to 104. Typically, worldwide there will be over ten thousand Hour of Code events registered, join the movement!

We’ve created a how-to here on our learning management platform. You can take yourself through and learn how to run hour-of-code yourself with your tamariki and rangatahi. It is a fun and easy way to introduce coding to them in a self-led environment.

Some of our favourite Hour of Code Activities

Minecraft Hour of Code - every year MinecraftEDU put more and more exciting activities up! And it’s all been translated into te reo Māori! 👉 https://code.org/minecraft

We love Toxicode’s Compute It! It teaches the tamariki to read the code before they write the code. Which is a much better way to pick up coding! 👉 http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/

Aotearoa’s own Gamefroot worked with Te Papa to create an amazing game where you explore the deep sea as a giant squid! 👉 https://make.gamefroot.com/activity/squid-adventure

Join Rei, Commander Leia, R2D2, BB8 and build a galaxy with code! 👉 https://code.org/starwars

Disney’s Moana - the popular Disney show showing your tamariki to code their way through the ocean 👉https://partners.disney.com/hour-of-code

Run an event at your School or Youth Group

Every year, during International Computer Science Week (early December) we take Hour of Code on the road! We can bring it to your school or youth group. Keep an eye on this page in November to see when the sign-ups open up. Here is a cool video of our 2018 road trip.

You don’t have to wait till Computer Science Week, you can run Hour of Code at any time. Check out our how-to course (on our Learning Management System) here and go for gold.