Making Children Tech-Savvy
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Camp K12 was born as a coding bootcamp for teenagers, again in 2010. Within the first 9 years of its operation, Camp K12 partnered intently with faculties throughout the nation to make coding accessible and enjoyable for kids aged 6 to 18 years.
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On this section of its journey, Camp K12 constructed out the primary ever structured coding curriculum for college college students in India, protecting all ages group and a broad number of matters throughout net improvement, cell app improvement, 2D & 3D recreation improvement, AI & ML, python & knowledge science and extra.
Camp K12 has already launched its very personal coding platform known as “Hatch Children”, which permits kids to construct their very own metaverses, 3D video games, and AR/VR apps that their family and friends can play in or devour. In its beta section, Hatch Children acquired 1.2 million customers throughout 150 nations in simply 5 months, pushed by adoption from educators, mother and father, edtech firms. The Hatch Children platform achieved this progress solely pushed by partnerships between the months of December and April 2022.
Camp K12 additionally launched the official Camp K12 cell app, which permits college students to construct out their social community, add mates, see a feed displaying their mates’ day by day exercise on the Camp K12 platform, and most significantly, compete in opposition to their mates in instructional quizzes. College students have a day by day streak which measures the consecutive days in a row that they’ve used the platform and are rewarded for group engagement with a multiplier on the cash they earn, which in flip helps them with leaderboard rankings and social rewards.
“Certainly one of Camp K12’s key achievements throughout this section was its means to make advanced and nascent applied sciences accessible and pleasant for younger college students through hands-on tasks that have been associated to real-world downside statements. Camp K12’s college students constructed and launched cell apps to handle social issues like sanitation, schooling, security, civic responsibility and healthcare,” mentioned Anshul Bhagi, CEO and co-founder of Camp K12.
In late 2021, the federal government of Delhi partnered with Camp K12 to carry coding curriculum to authorities faculties in NCR. By means of this authorities partnership, Camp K12 is scaling its attain in India.
The crew expects to have two million month-to-month energetic customers on the hatch children platform by December 2022. In FY 2022-23, Camp K12 will double down on the 0-CAC mannequin aided by the merchandise.
Factsheet:
12 months of firm:2010
No. of staff:300
Quantity of exterior funding and main buyers: $16M, Elevation Capital & Matrix Companions India
No. of scholars taught: > through coding platform “Hatch Children”: 1.2 Million > through Stay lessons: 400,000+
