What is Launchpad?
First Code Academy Launchpad is a one to two-week holiday camp where students have a unique opportunity to experience life in a global innovation hub, meet like-minded innovative individuals and create code up projects to solve real-life problems in the community. Through workshops and site visits, students will level up their computer programming skills, learn about the fundamentals of design thinking and prototyping, and apply their technical skills.
Launchpad was started in summer 2018 to bring students who are really interested in coding to see how real world innovation works.
We are currently recruiting students to join us on a tour to Singapore in Easter 2019 and to Silicon Valley in Summer 2019!
For more information, check out our Upcoming Programs.
Get out of your comfort zone and experience life in a global innovation hub.
Expand Your Horizons
Meet new friends from different cities who are also passionate about technology and code together.
Meet Like-Minded Individuals
Experience life first hand at innovative companies like Google, Facebook, and startups.
Visit Top Tech Companies
The vision behind Launchpad is to bring students who are really interested in coding to see how real world innovation works.
By showing students the workplaces of technology companies, chatting with technology entrepreneurs and software engineers, we bring together a powerful experience for them to explore their interests and passions in coding.
- Michelle, Founder & CEO
About First Code Academy
First Code Academy was founded with the mission to provide students with digital literacy and computational thinking skills and empowering them to become creators with technology. Using proprietary curriculum adapted from Silicon Valley high schools, our after-school learning programs are incorporated in learning environments designed to stimulate inquiry based learning, logical thinking and creative problem solving.
In 2012, Michelle was working in Silicon Valley as a software engineer and volunteered to teach programming to primary and secondary school students at a program operated at Stanford campus. During that time, she observed how the millennials (digital natives) interact and create with technology and reflected upon her education in Hong Kong.
Moving back to Hong Kong in 2013, Michelle then began to offer coding and STEM courses and develop curriculum for primary and secondary students to learn not just coding skills, but also computational thinking. Since then, our team has taught mobile applications, games, 3D Printing and animation to over 10,000 students from age 4 and above in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
We are excited to empower our next generation to become creative leaders in the digital era, for their future career and for driving social change. Join our journey! :)
