Summer tech camps teach children coding and robotics in CameroonCEFR A1
8 Jul 2025
Adapted from Cynthia Ebot Takang, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Adeniji Abdullahi A, Unsplash
- In Cameroon many parents sign up young children for summer camps.
- The camps run during the long summer school holidays.
- Children learn about computers, simple coding and robots.
- They build small machines, models and fun games.
- The courses end with a day to show projects.
- Some children wear lab coats and use tools daily.
- Some people and sponsors help pay for places.
- Many children want more training and technical education.
Difficult words
- camp — place where children go in summersummer camps
- holiday — long school break in summerholidays
- computer — electronic machine for work and learningcomputers
- coding — writing instructions for a computer program
- sponsor — person or group that gives moneysponsors
- project — planned activity to make something newprojects
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Discussion questions
- Have you been to a summer camp?
- Would you like to learn coding or robots?
- What would you show on a projects day?
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