FLO Vadodara, under the leadership of Chairperson Ms. Shivani P. Patel, organized an engaging “Coding Workshop” for the students of D R Amin Memorial School under its Digital Literacy initiative, as part of the National Initiative of FICCI FLO. This informative session was led by Mr. Pallav Shah, founder and CEO of RoboCodeVeda.
The program aimed to introduce students to the world of coding, helping them explore technology in a creative and interactive way while equipping them with skills relevant to the future.
The workshop emphasized unlocking the creative and problem-solving potential of young learners through hands-on learning, reflecting FICCI FLO’s core values of innovation, experiential education, and future-ready thinking.
During the session, students were introduced to coding as the language of technology, learning how human commands translate into machine actions. Using visual programming platforms like Scratch and VizBloc, students created interactive games, animations, and digital art projects, while exploring logic and problem-solving concepts.
The program, adapted from MIT’s Scratch and enhanced by RoboCodeVeda and Imagination.io, included tools for students to track and refine their learning. Projects such as the Mathematics Game demonstrated how coding combines logic, creativity, and problem-solving in practical applications.
The two-hour workshop began with a welcome and an introduction to FICCI FLO and RoboCodeVeda, along with a discussion on the importance of coding in digital literacy. Students then explored the VizBloc platform, learning to navigate its block-based coding interface.
They started with a simple “Hello Animation” project, creating animations with character movements, speech bubbles, and background changes. This was followed by a fun game project, “Maze Runner,” where students designed a maze game with moving characters and obstacles.
In the creative “Smart Calculator” project, students built calculators for Volume, Area, Perimeter, or Age, gaining hands-on experience with variables and inputs. The session concluded with a wrap-up and showcase, where students presented their projects, revisited key coding concepts such as loops, events, and variables, and received an encouraging closing message.
Through this initiative, FICCI FLO Vadodara demonstrated that digital literacy and coding go beyond technical skills—they are a gateway to creativity, critical thinking, and innovation. By opening the world of coding to students, the workshop inspired curiosity and laid the foundation for future-ready learners and innovators in technology.