Code Ninjas, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing kids coding franchise, is bringing its innovative approach to STEM education to Woodbridge with the opening of a brand-new centre.
Located at 6175 Highway 7 – Unit 3B, the new dojo will empower children ages 5–14 to learn computer coding, robotics, and problem-solving STEM skills by building their own video games in a fun, inspiring, and family-friendly environment, said the company.
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Code Ninjas said its curriculum makes STEM accessible and engaging by turning learning into play. Students progress through a structured, martial-arts-inspired program that guides them through nine belt levels, from white to black.
Along the way, they learn coding, robotics, and game development with the support of trained instructors known as Code Senseis. Milestones are celebrated through “Belt-Up” ceremonies, keeping kids motivated while reinforcing skills. By the time they complete the program, every student will have designed and published their own app, it explained.
In addition to weekly drop-in sessions, Code Ninjas Woodbridge will offer camps, workshops, and popular Parents Night Out events, giving families flexible opportunities to fit STEM learning into their schedules.
For more information, visit www.codeninjas.com/woodbridge-on-ca.
Founded in 2016, Code Ninjas is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing kids coding franchise. In hundreds of Code Ninjas centres across the country, kids ages 5-15 have fun building video games while gaining life-changing skills in coding, robotics, and problem solving. .
Siva Markandu, one of the owners of the Woodbridge location, described the brand as a coding academy for kids ages five to 14,” where we teach them the necessary skills that they’re going to integrate in programming.”
“There’s a belt system through Code Ninjas where you work towards getting each individual belt by doing these courses. As you keep developing your skills at the location, you would be able to get to your black belt grading. Through your black belt grading, you would actually be creating your own game that would be reviewed by the Code Ninjas black belt committee,” he explained.
“As of currently, we are focusing on the one location. It’s going to be really good because we want to really build it out. We’re going to be teaching robotics a little bit, JavaScript . . . building and modifying their own video games. It’s going to be interesting to get this up and running, but as this project goes really well, we might look towards expanding for sure.”
The interest in the concept came to Markandu and his business partner Max Li who both own and operate a jiu-jitsu academy.
“From there, we felt that it’s very crucial to the social environment to teach kids how to code at a young age. I went to school at Ryerson for business technology management, and my business partner does full stack developing,” said Markandu.
“We wanted to partner up with a franchise that has a proven model, but also wanted to ensure that we can teach it in our own way so they understand it better. Whenever you’re teaching kids, you have to ensure that it’s fun, they’re able to build confidence, it’s structured and flexible, and you’re able to create that hands-on creativity. As they build over time, they have their own style in how they write their code.”
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