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Our Story
“We develop critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity”
KIDS TECH & ARTS ACADEMY is East Africa’s 1st digital academy for kids & teens Aged 6yrs to 17yrs. We aim at enhancing their creativity and enabling them to unveil their digital and Artistic (Creative & Performance) talents.
Kids Tech & Arts Academy is a Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM)-focused, innovative based technology integration model for early childhood learning.
We provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences based on the pace and learning style of each student and actively engage the student by developing individualized learning plans which are based upon student interests, progress, and mastery.
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Our Values
Our Values
Mission
Empowering Students with Knowledge and Skills to think for themselves, gather evidence, Create, be innovative and be able to with Stand a problem and solve it.
Vision:
Seek to cultivate a Culture of Curiosity, Tenacity, Imagination, Creativity and Skepticism in Students
Motivation
• Arts education is a key to creativity, and
• Creativity is an essential component of, and spurs innovation, and
• Innovation is, agreed to be necessary to create new industries in the future, and
• New industries, with their jobs, are the basis of our future economic wellbeing
Our Goal
“The Workforce needs to hire technologists who know how to collaborate in teams, express themselves coherently, engagingly and persuasively, understand how to take and apply constructive criticism, and how to tell a good story. We don’t find these kids sitting alone at a lab table or buried in an algorithm. We need to find them taking art classes to understand how color and light really work, we need to find them in writing classes learning how to express themselves, and we find them in cultural studies and critical theory classes learning about the world at large.” By John Tarnoff
We incorporate these values into everything that we do!
• Boldness
Make a difference. Take a risk.
• Integrity
Have values. Live them.
• Tenacity
Find. A. Way. Or ten.
• Effort
Work hard. Work smart.
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Our Approach
Our Approach
• As an alternative solution on the after-school activities market and complementary to school, our offer is truly innovative and disruptive, and contributes to the digital transformation of our educational system which we believe is going to change the world of digital natives.
• East Africa’s first digital & Arts Academy, a unique spot dedicated to new technologies, meet in a friendly atmosphere: after-school activities all year long including weekdays and weekends, mini-camps during the holidays and special nights & events.
Our Program Categories
So many academic goals that we expect you to achieve.
ROBOTICS
You can build your own objects and characters and animate them by coding with Scratch. Which character will you choose? A monkey or a soccer player?
Build, program & animate your robots
DIGITAL ARTS
We will also learn to draw in 2D and design and print in 3D. With the making of several games, we will have an interest in game design at level design. Some projects will need animation technics (2D, 3D, stop motion etc.).
Incubator Academy 10-14year olds
An entrepreneurship-themed program that focuses on innovation. It teaches the kids to launch start-ups.
CREATIVE & PERFOMANCE ARTS
The School for Creative and Performing Arts; Classes include Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Instrumental Music, Technical Theater, Visual Arts, and Vocal Music
