FAQ
General
Our club’s main activities currently consist of developing our curriculum, code corner, fundraising, advertisement, coding editorial, and tutoring. We are always open to implementing new ideas that our members suggest.
Our club earns profits from our many fundraising events. We have an entire committee dedicated to organizing each event and our profits from the event go towards our different club platforms such as our tutoring, website, etc.
As technology continues to develop and become more relevant in our society, coding is becoming a necessary skill. CFA allows everyone, even non-coders, to share their knowledge and enrich the coding foundation of every individual. Through collaborating with others, you will not only further develop your coding knowledge but will also develop your communication skills. Join CFA to grasp at least a basic understanding of coding and be a part of the future.
Of course, one of the main goals of our clubs is to bring in non-coders to this community and share knowledge together. You will have the opportunity to participate in any activities in the club.
Tutoring
Yes, you are required to have an introductory level of coding based on your preferred tutoring (Java or Scratch). However, the curriculum is open to non-coders who want to learn and they too can become a tutor if they learn all the necessary concepts. We will guide any non-coders through the process if interested.
The main roles of the tutors are to provide a safe, enjoyable environment for the optimal learning experience for the students as well as ensuring the students receive a quality education to benefit their potential pursuit of coding in the future.
As there are certain requirements to become a tutor, not everyone will be able to have the opportunity. But that means once you have met the requirements, you are set to become a tutor. To earn yourself an opportunity to be a tutor, you can request to see our curriculum and come to our weekly meetings to get support.
There will be a total of 3 tutors, 1 instructor, and 2 assistants. While the instructor will lead the class mainly by themselves, the assistants will go around the classroom and help students who need help during the lesson and students who might need extra help or supervision to make sure they don’t have difficulties along with the program.
Once you become a tutor, you will be recorded of your participation and acquire service hours; A tutor will gain more teaching experiences and collaborations along with the privilege to identify his or her title as an official tutor. In addition, the best monthly tutor(decided through survey from students) will be posted on our Instagram and be rewarded with a gift.
Curriculum
As of now, level 1 Scratch age range is 8-10 while level 1 Java is anyone above 11 years old. However, we are lenient with this range and are open to allowing younger kids to move up a level or older kids to move down a level depending on their performance in class.
The curriculums are designed to provide free, but quality, coding education to the students of early age to build a solid foundation with regards to their coding knowledge by the end of the program. It encourages them to dive into the coding world and opens up coding-related careers in the future.
Although we currently have only level 1 for both Java and Scratch, our club is planning to create level 2 curriculums of those coding languages to promote students who are highly passionate about furthering their coding knowledge after completing level 1 courses. This will be completed by the end of the year. Additionally, our club has a special service called “coding corners” where we provide free access to laptops to students who have engaged consistently and performed at a high level in the program. We provide coding guides/tutorials that allow them to continue their pursuit of coding in their future career paths.
Students are NOT required to bring their personal computers as our club will provide all the materials needed for the course for FREE such as laptops, notebooks, stationery, and etc.
In this case, the organizations can contact our club through emails or calls to further discuss the specific plans of curriculum usages and logistics, but our club is always open to collaborate and improve the current curriculum for educational purposes.