​New funding to ramp up public digital readiness

The Straits Times, page B4

The Tiny Thinkers, a pilot non-profit initiative to equip young children with computational thinking skills, is the first organisation to get funds from a new digital-readiness component of the Our Singapore Fund launched in 2016. The team – comprising NTU communication undergraduates Germaine Tan, Chen Peijun, Teo Yisi and Jermaine Lau – has been conducting a series of free coding workshops for parents in the past two weeks. Ms Tan, 23, said: “Given Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, we felt it was important for kids to learn these skills. As the barriers to entry to such opportunities can be high, we wanted to make computational thinking accessible to families of various backgrounds.”