KidsTech Charitable Trust, a non-profit organisation training children learn new technologies hosted its end of the year competition earlier last week at Balmoral Community Hall in Auckland.
KidsTech was founded by Indira Bhandari, a Business Intelligence Consultant and Microsoft MVP who has been running free classes on learning the latest technologies for children since 2016.
KidsTech hosts free training classes, Information seminars, and conduct competitions for children so that they can become early adopters of the latest technologies.
In the last five years, KidsTech has conducted over 60 events helping children to get trained and participate in various events and competitions.
"Altogether we have trained around 40 kids with either game development or databases and Power BI," Ms Bhandari said.
This year KidsTech provided virtual training classes for children in SQL (Structural Query Language) to communicate with a database and Power BI, a business analytics service by Microsoft for 14 weeks.
The training concluded with Power BI competition for the trainees on Monday, December 14 at Balmoral Community Hall.
Twelve children aged between 10 and 14 years presented their data analysis using Microsoft Power BI tool that they learnt during the 14 weeks training.
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The topics the participants picked ranged from avocado, cereals, candy to a variety of sports topics that included, soccer and arsenal.
The participants were judged by Reza Rad, Director of Radacad, and Microsoft Regional Director and Leila Etaati, co-founder of Radacad and Microsoft MVP.
The top three performers in the competition were Priyal Sharma, Sri Thanvi Sayapparaju and Aditi Sai Duptala and they were awarded for their exceptional visualisations.
Recalling the journey of KidsTech, Ms Bhandari said the organisation has come a long way and aims to capture young minds' interest in updated new technologies, understanding databases, data visualisations, fundamentals of computer languages and more.
"Through these free training classes I have learnt that we should try new initiatives, look for ways to give back to the community, be creative, recognise the diversity of talent in children, create a platform for young ones to learn new and more things," M Bhandari added.
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