How Educators Around the World Are Using No Code to Challenge and Motivate Students

Teachers, educators, instructors—they’re heroes. They change lives every day by giving the gift of knowledge and preparing the next generation for personal and professional success. 

As it gets harder and harder to hold students’ attention, some of these teacher-heroes are applying new technologies to their lesson plans to boost engagement. Here are just a few examples of classroom leaders using no code by way of Thunkable. 

MindChamp

MindChamp is a women-owned edtech company based in Mumbai, India. Their mission is to promote STEM learning and “21st-century skills,” specifically coding. They added app-building courses for kids as young as seven. "The wow moment for them as they start Thunkable is as soon as they click a button, the color can change,” says MindChamp instructor Chidambara Singh. 

As MindChamp students improve their app-building skills, they build fully formed apps that are published to Google Play. They’ve created apps for book sharing, learning English, reading the news, and more. Driven by a need he saw in his community, one student designed an app that shows users where they can easily recycle various goods and items—and it won a regional award.

Studio Kode

Based in Indonesia, Studio Kode aims to make education and technology equitable. In Indonesia, most students don't start any kind of technology class until middle school or later. On top of a lack of early exposure to technology, access to tools for the nation’s 85 million children is expensive.   

Studio Kode Cco-Ffounder Kartika Dumasari started the organization to bridge the gap in technology education. She was looking for an app development platform that encouraged creativity, problem-solving, and logic. With Thunkable, Studio Kode students have created apps for pollution, deforestation, accounting, and more. "My favorite apps are those that are tackling the issues currently in Indonesia,” Dumasari says. “It means they care about their community." 

Big Red Group

The Big Red Group's purpose is simple: bring top-tier education opportunities to Asian countries. They run workshops and immersive programs focused on 21st-century skills. Big Red Group consultant Kriti Thakur was looking for a hands-on, tangible way for students to experience entrepreneurship. Since the Big Red Group primarily works with middle and high schoolers, she needed something engaging but also challenging.

Thakur used Thunkable during a three-day prototyping sprint. "We said that whatever your business idea is, it should be simple enough for you to prototype on an app," she says.

Students in the Big Red Group entrepreneurship program were so excited when they saw their apps coming to life. "I think what stands out to me is that kids today have a lot of ideas and they have the freedom to express their ideas and to think freely and be innovative,” she says. “What Thunkable does is it gives them the opportunity, in a very simple way, to actually go one step forward and not just talk in concept."

It’s that extra push by a teacher that can spark something in a student’s mind, and get them interested in a subject they thought they could never master. No code platforms make computer science fundamentals accessible to students of all ages and experiences. And students can tackle real problems they see in their communities, apply their new skills, and find a solution. 

Be a No Code Hero

Studying no code gives your students the skills and the confidence they need to learn complex computer science concepts. And it’s a fun, frustration-free way to jump right into technology development. Capture your students’ imaginations. Learn how to implement no code education in your classroom by reading our Ultimate Guide to Inspiring Students With No Code Mobile App Development.