{"id":12839,"date":"2018-07-17T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=12839"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:46:46","slug":"kid-tech-nation-online-portal-live-launched-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/kid-tech-nation-online-portal-live-launched-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Kid Tech Nation online portal is live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the launch of our new Kid Tech Nation online portal!<\/p>\n<p>Kid Tech Nation is a Boys and Girls Club of Canada national program that introduces children aged 7 \u2013 12 to computational thinking, coding, and communication skills in a fun, beginner-friendly, and collaborative environment. Pilot programs for Kid Tech Nation are running at 20 Clubs in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Kid Tech Nation online portal was created for kids to learn about coding &#8230; while having fun! With parent\/guardian help, kids can go online to try play-based educational games, activities, and videos\u2014and enter a contest to win a laptop or a visit from Canada Learning Code\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadalearningcode.ca\/code-mobile\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CodeMobile<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>To join the Kid Tech Nation movement, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kidtechnation.ytv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidtechnation.com<\/a> today!<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Government of Canada\u2019s #CanCode initiative, Kid Tech Nation is developed in collaboration with Canada Learning Code and Corus Entertainment, and is proudly supported by Barrick Gold Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the launch of our new Kid Tech Nation online portal! Kid Tech Nation is a Boys and Girls Club of Canada national program that introduces children aged 7 \u2013 12 to computational thinking, coding, and communication skills in a fun, beginner-friendly, and collaborative environment. Pilot programs for Kid Tech Nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","category-learning-career-development"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90594,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions\/90594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}