Structuring our Fundamentals Programme

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This last week we've been heads down figuring out how we are going to structure our programme based on the awesome survey results from the kids the week before. This thread covers some of our thoughts... #buildinpublic Week 3 🧵

1/ We want the programme to be as relevant as possible to as many kids as possible within an age group. For our 16-18 y.o.'s we are going to focus more on how NoCode skills can help with job prospecting as well as being a useful team member compared to our younger age groups

2/ Our 16-18 y.o.'s are very interested in UI/UX design which sparked an idea: let's invite guest experts to explain certain concepts & show the kids "design IRL" to make it real for them. We have a couple of people in mind already but if you're a web designer & interested DM us

3/ Not all kids will be interested in all the facets of NoCode so we thought, "why not create optional modules along the way?" to allow deeper dives into certain areas, topic offshoots if you like, without restricting the main flow of learning for the kids.

4/ We showed an e.g. in the week of a young person's commercial success by embracing a popular NoCode tool (@NotionHQ) & delivering incredible value to his audience. From this, we've decided to talk with other young people who've created successful products to share their stories

5/ Mental health is an important topic to consider when working with young people. We truly believe that making stuff can be beneficial to wellbeing as opposed to 100% content consumption esp. with the younger age group. So we've decided to lightly cover this within the programme

6/ We've also been testing a variety of audio/visual tools to handle our content creation, post-production, hosting & more. There's no one stand-out tool in this space (sadly) but we're determined to use a NoCode approach to make this efficient for us yet still high quality 📹 🎤

7/ Lastly, we've created a database in @NotionHQ to track all the conversations we've started having with a wide range of people interested in what we're doing. We know that we need to be organised from the get-go as things can happen fast so we need to be on top of our data!