0:10

We are live on Facebook

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with coding course creators. Thank

0:15

you everybody. For joining us, we have an amazing panel

0:18

that we'll all learn from. And what's

0:20

very, very cool is that we have an

0:22

amazing audience, a very rich audience

0:24

of coders in the online space.

0:27

So we're thrilled to have everybody joining us today.

0:29

What we are going to talk about, I will

0:31

let you know very clearly how

0:33

to convince parents of the value of online.

0:37

How to leverage online teaching for

0:39

development fund, how to onboard

0:41

and manage a large group of teachers

0:44

in the online coding space. So

0:48

we are very excited to be here. We

0:50

are lucky enough to be here because of

0:52

the genius of the founder and CEO

0:54

of I'm

0:56

going to let Dota take the mic for a couple minutes

0:58

here and talk about why we are here and kind of set

1:00

some ground.

1:03

All right. The rules is your, is your role

1:05

Josh, but, uh, I'll do my part. Um,

1:08

uh, thanks. Thanks for that. And I'm, I'm very

1:10

happy and excited for this panel.

1:12

It's going to be very interesting. So hi, Orland

1:14

Butan. I'm from click to, we are

1:16

a technology solution for the enrichment

1:19

providers who are looking to thrive in the

1:21

online space, but we're

1:23

not just an end to end software platform.

1:25

We actually. Understand

1:28

what turns an online course into

1:30

an amazing experience and journey for

1:32

kids. I got some stuff to show

1:34

you towards the end, so

1:36

it'll have to stick with us to the end for

1:39

that glimpse of, uh, of that good,

1:41

but that's not going to be hard to stick with us

1:43

because this discussion today is very

1:46

relevant to where the industry

1:48

is right now. Online is

1:50

here to stay. I don't think anybody here

1:52

will argue that, um, And

1:55

we all have to really accept. So

1:58

there's a lot to do. We've got some challenging

2:00

questions for our wonderful panelists.

2:03

So, so Josh you're

2:05

ready. We're ready. Let's start.

2:07

Yeah. Yeah. Before, as you said, I'm going to

2:09

just kind of set some ground rules. We'll quick.

2:12

Uh, again, we have an amazing panel,

2:14

but we also have an amazing audience and

2:16

we know in our audience, we do know this.

2:18

We have CEOs and we have founders of some

2:21

big online coding companies. So

2:23

we want everybody to participate. So

2:25

please use the. And

2:27

please chat with everybody because this

2:30

is actually an opportunity to network with

2:32

people all across the world. So let's take

2:34

advantage of that, um, and be sure

2:36

to stay tuned. Has Dotan said

2:38

one more teaser. We're going to have an opportunity

2:40

for, uh, a strategy called widow

2:42

time that will come up. So without

2:45

further ado, I'm going to get us start. With

2:48

questions. Merrick Merrick

2:50

is the founder and CEO of coding and kids.

2:52

He provides high quality computer science

2:55

education to K-12

2:57

students. Merrick's question is

2:59

this how to convince parents of

3:02

the value of online coding?

3:04

How have you done that? American welcome.

3:09

And Natana and teams, thank you for putting this

3:11

together and making this event happen.

3:15

So at the kids.

3:19

We actually have chosen

3:21

not to put too much energy into convincing

3:23

parents about why coding

3:25

is important or why online classes

3:27

are important. We prefer to

3:29

work with those who have the inclination

3:31

to believe in that. And our

3:33

energy and focus goes into having the best

3:35

curriculum and trying

3:38

to deliver the best, best online classes

3:40

that you can cannot cost this in general. So

3:43

as a strategy that, that seems to be. We

3:46

got to dwell for us because then parents will join,

3:49

have a great varied experience for the kids.

3:54

We started out program in 2014.

3:56

Of course in person is everybody at, at

3:59

the time. Um, they started to experiment

4:01

with online classes in 2017

4:04

and 2008. And then

4:06

started to grow them in 2019.

4:09

And of course, 2020, everything

4:11

had to go online. So we've had a little bit lucky

4:13

that already experimented with that before,

4:16

but we're ready for the switch. So

4:18

now we have, uh,

4:20

over 1500 students taking

4:23

our online classes, 70, uh, on

4:25

a, on a weekly. O

4:29

uh, The Online

4:31

is it represents certain challenges,

4:34

but it has some very significant advantages.

4:36

And there are stream that partly

4:39

I focus of mine

4:41

that I like to communicate. So

4:43

the first one of them

4:46

is, is the amount of choices.

4:49

So in our call, this pathway security, Columbia,

4:51

over 50 courses that we

4:53

are offering. And

4:55

there is no way that even in our largest location,

4:58

we will be able to offer all those courses. And

5:01

I told the kids with all end up being, because the limited

5:03

set of options in the online

5:05

world, or these options are

5:07

available for them. Right? So you

5:09

might need, even the kids from

5:11

small locations, small towns, they,

5:13

they can choose any, any of the courses

5:15

of that or their choice. So

5:17

that's a huge advantage. Even

5:19

bigger than mine, ditches, uh, ability

5:22

to match instructors with the right

5:24

skills. So in a similar

5:26

way, right? in smaller locations,

5:29

it's hard to find people with the expertise.

5:33

And so either one doesn't offer a certain

5:35

classes or one has to

5:38

sort of pick the best option

5:40

and try to play them as much as you can. And it's

5:43

not always ideal. Wining

5:45

the online, you can have our Phillips three

5:47

best instructors for unity,

5:50

and they can teach kids from anywhere in the us

5:53

or going to whatever I had done.

5:55

So that's a, that's a huge

5:57

lift in quality of getting paid. And

6:00

then there is a third aspect. That's, the

6:03

verse while exploring and

6:05

that's matching a learning and teaching

6:07

style. So every teacher has a slightly different

6:10

style of teaching every student. Has a

6:12

slightly different style of learning

6:14

and affinity to different types of teachers.

6:17

And so with sufficient volume of

6:19

teachers and students,

6:22

one should be able to also optimize

6:24

the words, matching students and teachers,

6:27

even in a group setting so that they,

6:30

optimize their experience. Um,

6:33

I wouldn't say that something we have fully explored

6:35

yet, but it is something on the horizon.

6:37

Something we definitely want to look

6:40

to do. So. That's

6:43

some great advantages to teaching

6:44

teaching of mind. Yeah. I

6:47

mean, obviously, you know, when, especially in the

6:49

coding and the opportunities, uh,

6:51

online, um, are,

6:53

are unique and. And

6:56

I think your points are, you

6:58

know, very, very, very, uh,

7:01

inspiring and can

7:04

lead to the

7:06

end of the day, lead to better education,

7:08

better learning, um, gave you

7:11

heads. You have another comment

7:13

to add about.

7:14

Yeah. So I wanted to add to that besides the

7:16

customization feel, we also

7:18

make sure the parents know that it's interactive, that

7:21

it's not a big group of students online

7:23

zoom, and they're just listening to the teacher. Um,

7:26

and then we also offer one-on-one

7:28

when a student needs extra help, uh,

7:31

with coding, then we have extra

7:33

teachers available and they'll go to a

7:35

breakout session. So it's a one-on-one breakout.

7:38

So. With a student get that student

7:40

caught up and then they can join the group

7:42

again with interactive, but something very important

7:44

with stem is the collaboration

7:47

among the students. And then the interaction

7:49

with the, with the teachers. Um,

7:52

you know, especially for.

7:54

It's much

7:57

like the, the chest folks

7:59

that we talked to, you know, the,

8:01

the collaboration is really important and I, and I'm

8:03

sure you guys believe this as well in the chest

8:05

folks that we talked to who value

8:08

the online chess as well. Um,

8:11

talk to about. Character.

8:14

And so we're going to talk to one of our CEOs.

8:16

His name is guru guru is the founder and

8:18

CEO of silicone valley for you company

8:20

that matches top trainers and top academies

8:22

with students six and above. So

8:24

guru your question, uh, that we're

8:26

going to ask you here is how do you leverage online teaching

8:29

for developing character

8:32

and life skills? Okay. We know you're going

8:34

to do the coding, but let's also talk about the character

8:36

and life skills, which as parents is,

8:39

is very important.

8:40

Absolutely. Thanks, Josh.

8:42

And thanks to Darden. So,

8:45

um, it's honored to be part

8:48

of this Powell. Um, so, so

8:50

basically ours is very simple Silicon

8:52

valley for you. So we are bringing Silicon

8:54

valley to you. So wherever you are

8:57

back in the day I came to Silicon valley,

8:59

um, building my dreams and

9:02

then so with the current infrastructure

9:04

and everything, um,

9:06

you know, um, my ex, uh, spoke about.

9:10

So you don't really have to come to Silicon valley,

9:12

but what is Silicon valley? If you

9:14

look at the four miles radius

9:17

of Silicon valley, the

9:20

market cap is or 8 trillion. It's

9:23

about 11 companies. I'm not

9:25

listing Twitter, I'm not listing MD's I'm

9:27

not listening to tons of companies. The

9:29

point is that it's, uh, the

9:32

skill of the real war.

9:35

That's what matters. So why are we

9:37

learning all this? So with all due respect, a

9:39

lot of schools out there today, they

9:42

talk about what you're going to learn. I

9:44

call them skills. So what

9:46

are you learning? And I'm learning

9:48

math, I'm learning physics, I'm learning chemistry.

9:51

I'm learning. Then why are you

9:53

learning? So

9:55

really, really, I get dancer. I

9:58

talk to people every day, so they

10:00

say, I know Java programming. Then

10:03

my first question is what did you do? Where

10:06

do you really get any answers? Same with math.

10:09

I'm w I'm one of the top either, you know, straight,

10:11

Hey guys, student of math. What does that

10:13

mean? So what did

10:15

you do with that map? So just getting

10:18

a bunch of certificates. Blades is great. Don't

10:20

get me wrong. That allows you to go to one

10:22

of the top schools. Hopefully

10:24

come out well and do well in life,

10:27

but it's not working or that there is a massive

10:30

gap between the real world and education,

10:33

which we all know. I'm not stating

10:36

some rocket science here. We see that

10:38

day in and day out. I know a bunch of people

10:40

from top schools. I really screwed.

10:43

Looking for jobs. I have resumes. And

10:47

the, I mean, I'm not saying that they're bad

10:50

or their schools are bad. None of those,

10:52

just that the ability of

10:54

connecting the dots, the life skills.

10:56

So, so to answer your question,

10:59

so what we do is we created

11:01

this process where

11:03

they get to see why they're learning

11:05

what they are learning, not only coding

11:07

everything else, they are learning. in school Whether

11:10

you want to be like Josh, for instance, you said

11:12

you, were in sports. So

11:14

when you are passionate

11:17

about sports, what can you do there? You

11:19

can be a player which is very rare.

11:21

I mean, apparently, and, you can be uh, um,

11:25

lot of other things, you can be a general manager.

11:28

You can be a lot of other things you can build your own sports

11:30

team. So how do

11:32

you add value to the existing sports

11:34

teams is what you need to learn? That's

11:37

the life skill we are trying to bring to

11:39

them with our process of

11:41

seeing. this Without

11:43

any age constraints without

11:46

any constraints of, uh,

11:48

being, um, you are not this,

11:50

you are this, you are a C grader you can

11:53

do this. You are B grader you can

11:55

do this. You are a grader you are

11:57

entitled to do this. We don't have all that.

12:00

I tell you. And

12:03

just because there are especially

12:05

pattern in this in some cases, just

12:08

because you already agreed that you went to top

12:10

schools, you got out of top schools.

12:13

That's not the end of the world. Trust

12:15

me. You're at the zero right off. No, your

12:17

last school, if you

12:19

had a secret. You are not,

12:21

it's not end of the world. Trust me, you have

12:23

a bright future and

12:25

you can still do well as

12:28

well as anybody, if not better.

12:30

So my point is that we deal

12:32

with students from six years, all

12:35

the way to post grad students. For

12:38

me, everybody who already is learning

12:40

is a student and I'm a student.

12:43

It's a continuous learning. There is no such thing. You

12:47

are a mentor. You're a mentee.

12:49

That's how the world is structured right now. You

12:51

find me in a college. I am a student.

12:53

I don't get a chance to be a mentor. Whereas

12:57

right now I can be a mentor, but I

12:59

stopped learning. I mean, I, not me, a lot

13:01

of people out there, they stop learning with all

13:03

due respect. But

13:05

what are incorrect? I want

13:08

to be a mentor. If I'm capable of

13:10

mentoring someone, I don't get an opportunity.

13:12

We give that opportunity. And

13:14

then if you are, um, you don't

13:16

ever relax and don't think that you

13:18

will UC Berkeley or you understand for

13:21

you arrive. No, you did not. 10,

13:24

some guys who joined apple in

13:26

Stanford in three years time. I

13:28

know. They,

13:31

they, um, it's all to do with aspect. They're

13:33

curious. Didn't takeoff. Not because of

13:35

anything. There may be other factors

13:37

coming to pictures as well. I'm not just trying

13:39

to point out this, but the ability

13:41

of connecting the dots, the

13:44

ability of connecting dots is what we bring

13:46

to the table as part of the Silicon valley for you.

13:49

And you can have fun with it. We all

13:51

have as a kid, you

13:53

know, if I give a smart phone to my son,

13:55

I don't have to train him how to use it. He will

13:57

tell me how to do. He did tell me

13:59

how he does it. Trust me, I'm liking it. And

14:03

so coding and especially

14:05

tech is, uh, is,

14:07

is very, uh, you know, uh, intuitive

14:10

and you, a lot of people have formulated

14:13

and, oh,

14:14

well, that's a, as some people would

14:16

argue with that, but, uh, but definitely

14:19

I think to your point,

14:21

everybody, and somebody wrote it

14:23

on the chat, send everyone, hashtag everyone

14:25

can code. Right.

14:30

Yeah. Just one last sentence, because we,

14:32

we are at the end of the time this time.

14:36

Sure, sure.

14:39

Okay, so, uh, okay.

14:42

Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.

14:44

We'll have some more time with the Q and a, but I

14:46

think your, your it's

14:48

very inspiring. What you saying in

14:50

general about learning

14:53

coding and the fact that this can all still

14:55

be implemented online, where

14:58

a much bigger audience with,

15:00

with, with even. The

15:03

online life skills, because our

15:05

lives are going to be more and more digital.

15:07

People are going to work more online. And

15:09

the fact that they're learning online gives them

15:12

that platform. Um, Bri,

15:14

I know you want to, you want to add to the little comment

15:17

about that as well, and then just, you know, we

15:19

are, uh, we need the time, but we

15:21

will be okay. Um, I'm

15:23

going to take it for a second. Let me take

15:25

it for a second. I'm going to speed this up, but I'm going

15:27

to Brie anyway, so it's all good. Brie. I'm coming to you.

15:30

Everyone can cook. Must

15:32

resonate with Bri Bri founded

15:34

the nonprofit code, your dreams as well

15:36

as code or heroes. It's a buy one, give

15:39

one coding platform for children. So

15:41

Brie definitely you can comment

15:44

on everyone can code, but here's your question.

15:46

How do you onboard and manage a large group

15:49

of teachers while keeping

15:51

the standards?

15:54

Yeah. And

15:55

thanks so much for having me here. I think

15:57

that is such a great question. And it's

15:59

really critical to our operations

16:02

to hire onboard and manage

16:05

really exceptional teachers, both

16:07

at code your dreams, the nonprofit,

16:09

and then coder heroes. Um,

16:11

I always say that teachers are the heart of

16:13

education organizations like mine.

16:16

So, no matter how innovative or

16:19

student-centered our curriculum is,

16:21

it's all for not without highly

16:23

engaged and also impactful

16:25

teachers. Um, so both

16:27

of my organizations, it's our teachers

16:30

who are the ones that build those strong relationships

16:33

with students. And then they also encourage

16:35

and empower really, um, them to

16:37

solve big problems with technology.

16:40

So as you can imagine, onboarding

16:43

and managing large numbers of. Exceptional

16:46

inspirational teachers. It does take

16:48

a lot of intention a lot of time

16:50

and of course money, everything

16:52

does. Um, so when it comes to hiring

16:54

and onboarding teachers, each teacher

16:57

really comes in with different life experiences,

16:59

different strengths and different training needs.

17:02

Therefore, a personalized approach to

17:04

onboarding for us has been really key

17:06

to our success, especially as there

17:08

are so many different training areas,

17:11

um, like SEL social, emotional learning

17:13

training. To curriculum training

17:15

to anti-biased training and

17:17

beyond. Um, so for

17:20

us, I code your dreams. This has been

17:22

historically very manual. Uh,

17:26

very manual process. Um, but my

17:28

team currently is working on

17:30

building out an LMS, a learning

17:32

management system to help us onboard

17:35

those large groups of teachers at scale.

17:38

Um, it also allows us to empower

17:40

other community agents to

17:42

start their ownCode your dreams, chapters,

17:44

or programs within their own communities

17:47

And then similarly at coder heroes,

17:49

we're also building out an LMS

17:51

learning management system and booking

17:53

system to again, empower and train

17:56

more tech experts and

17:58

to becoming teachers and allow more

18:00

kids to get exposed to key coding

18:03

from a really young age. Um,

18:05

the other aspect that I think is important

18:07

for this question is. Of

18:10

maintaining and building

18:12

a supportive teacher community so

18:14

that teachers themselves can learn,

18:17

they can grow and they can share from each other.

18:19

So for us, um, we have

18:22

a communication channel for teachers in slack.

18:24

We have group check-ins and then we also

18:27

have events that bring all of our teachers

18:29

together. And I think what's

18:31

amazing is seeing the comradery

18:34

and the problem solving that happens when

18:36

we bring all of our teachers

18:38

together. And the last

18:40

thing I'll say about teachers is that at

18:42

the end of the R uh, at the end of the day,

18:45

we don't just see our students as our customers,

18:47

but it's really also our teachers as customers

18:50

as well. So it's not just students

18:52

that need to feel supported, but our teachers

18:54

need to feel supported. And that

18:56

they're also being exposed to opportunities

18:59

that are helping them grow both professionally

19:01

and personally. Um,

19:04

to, to feel like their career

19:06

is also moving in a positive direction,

19:08

just like our students.

19:15

Oh, oh, well, there was this loose

19:17

in sounding background, but, uh, uh,

19:20

so Bri that's that's, uh, you know, those are great

19:22

points and I think QR

19:24

figuring out those things now

19:26

in order to really scale and

19:29

serve more and more kids that,

19:31

uh, can leverage your

19:34

expertise at this field. And

19:37

I want to, um, ask

19:41

you as

19:44

a follow-up for this, um,

19:46

do you feel that it's

19:49

now harder to find

19:52

the best instructors than

19:54

before? Is it becoming harder, uh,

19:57

easier or actually,

20:00

if you can give us this magic tip on

20:03

how to identify those

20:05

experts, those amazing teachers.

20:08

Yeah,

20:08

well, I feel like it's gotten easier,

20:11

but that just might be my own bias

20:13

because I've just been doing it for longer

20:15

recruiting teachers. I think

20:17

the really cool thing is that really anyone

20:20

can be an educator. So we do

20:23

train teachers with so many different

20:25

backgrounds. I would say like the two

20:27

classic backgrounds that we see time and

20:29

time again. are one, um,

20:31

people who are software developers

20:34

have been for a long time and

20:36

are now trying to enter into the education

20:38

space. So teaching for

20:40

us, we teach mostly after school,

20:43

some in school, but being

20:45

able to teach informally in

20:47

an afterschool program can be a great

20:49

launching pad for them To get

20:51

more ingrained in the education space

20:54

and then really the opposite, which are people

20:56

who are classically trained as educators

20:59

have worked in the classroom for a really long

21:01

time. Um, and then our

21:03

newly getting into software

21:05

development or data science or design.

21:08

Um, so maybe they went to a coding bootcamp,

21:10

maybe they did self-learning

21:12

and they're trying to break into the tech

21:14

industry. Um, those

21:17

are really great people because they know

21:19

how to manage classrooms. They understand

21:22

PT teacher pedagogies,

21:24

um, but they also are informed

21:27

and, um, these technical skills. So

21:29

they make really good teachers. So, um,

21:31

at the end of the day for us, we really

21:34

just open

21:36

the gates for a lot of different

21:38

people from different experience.

21:41

I like, as you said, everyone can be

21:43

an educator. And just, that is really

21:45

the topic of tomorrow's. But till tomorrow

21:47

is Silva to talk about this later. No,

21:50

you're well

21:50

enough to know that that was music to your ears. And I

21:52

love Bree's answer because basically I said,

21:54

debris, you know, how do you keep your standards

21:56

of. You know, of, of managing

21:59

a large group of teachers, she said, not

22:01

only are we going to manage them, but we're creating on

22:03

LMS. So very cool. She's

22:05

going to try and do it on her own. Very cool. So

22:08

we've got American group who have their hands

22:10

up. Clearly this question has

22:13

piqued some interest. So what I'd like to do is we will

22:15

put a pin in this question. We'll come

22:17

back to it in our Q and a, I

22:19

want to get to Gail. Okay, Gail,

22:22

this, this question. Perfect

22:24

for you because literally look

22:26

at your background robot academy.

22:29

You clearly know how to create

22:31

your own niche and differentiate yourself.

22:34

So that's the question you're going to get, but let me tell everybody

22:36

who you are. You're the co-founder and director of operations

22:39

of robot academy, which offers

22:41

fun, seeing programs online

22:43

and in-person for a variety

22:45

of ages. So tell us, how

22:48

do you differentiate yourself? We can't figure.

22:52

Yeah, exactly. Robots out. Um,

22:54

yeah. Well, thank you for having me. I'm really excited to

22:57

talk about my robots. I always love talking

22:59

about them. Uh, there's basically two things

23:01

that we find helps differentiate

23:04

us. The first is to focus on, uh,

23:06

trends, what customers want and,

23:08

and be active with that such as, uh,

23:10

we've been teaching in-person camps

23:13

for over 15 years, but during

23:15

the pandemic, we. You

23:17

know, switch to, uh, focus online.

23:20

We also sell our curriculum to schools and

23:22

camp directors as well. Uh,

23:24

so that is something that, um,

23:26

we've been able to, shift. And I can

23:28

tell you more about that to, meet the customer's

23:31

needs, especially during 2020

23:33

and 2021. The other thing is

23:35

to focus on what gives us that competitive advantage,

23:38

uh, for us our competitive

23:40

advantage that can't be duplicated by other Uh,

23:43

you know, um, competitors

23:46

in this space is that I've coached

23:48

a bunch of teams that have won the world championship in

23:50

robotics and, um, inventions.

23:54

that's, my passion, that's my joy. And to

23:56

get kids excited

23:58

about stem and to really build confidence

24:00

in kids with stem. So, um,

24:03

we, uh, I coached a team that won first

24:05

Lego league in the world first

24:07

place in performance. So that's out

24:09

of. 200,000

24:12

kids, 86 countries. Uh,

24:14

we won first place in the world two years in

24:16

a row. And then we retired our

24:18

team and we've been teaching ever since. And then

24:20

I took this robot academy graduates

24:22

from that to win a lot of invention competitions

24:25

like east cyber mission, explore vision,

24:27

stuff like that. Uh, so we have

24:29

students that come to us that are interested

24:31

in these competitions and

24:33

we, um, build it into our curriculum,

24:36

our keys to success for that. A

24:38

lot of our students have gone on to win at

24:40

the national level as well.

24:43

So it's very, very exciting for me. Um,

24:45

and the second thing that differentiates us

24:47

is that we help the kids. Um, they

24:49

earn points towards trophies and we

24:51

have really big trophies online.

24:54

I'll show them our trophies to get

24:56

them excited. Like I'll, I'll put

24:58

that behind me, um,

25:00

just to keep the kids focused, uh,

25:02

because it's real easy with online kids to

25:04

just kind of, to

25:07

get them. Really excited

25:09

about it. They submit videos or

25:11

during our celebration time, they will,

25:14

you know, show what their robots doing, which is so

25:16

exciting for us. Um, and so

25:18

there's a lot of collaboration, a lot of encouragement

25:21

from everyone, uh, to really

25:23

focus on kids being successful.

25:26

if they're having trouble,

25:28

then again, we would do a breakout

25:30

one-on-one or we are

25:33

able to make sure that all kids win, trophies,

25:35

things like that. Another thing

25:37

is that we provide for a variety of trophies. We've

25:39

been teaching Lego Mindstorms for 15 years.

25:42

And so again, there's who have the robots.

25:45

Um, if they don't have a Lego Mindstorms,

25:48

we found, uh, we created our own

25:50

robot that does

25:52

everything in our curriculum that the Lego

25:54

Mindstorms does, but it's, one-fourth

25:56

the price. So that's been very, very helpful for

25:59

parents online, who, you

26:01

know, They're like, I don't want to pay more

26:03

for the robot then you're teaching. So,

26:05

you know, we have it so that it's, um, competitively

26:08

priced for that. So that parents feel comfortable

26:11

buying a robot. See if the kid enjoys

26:14

it. We have a lot of repeat students.

26:16

We, we build on it since we have a

26:18

full curriculum that we sell to schools for

26:20

several years of learning. And

26:22

so we apply that online. So

26:24

we teach, uh, uh, Arduino.

26:27

Uh, scratch and Python. So a lot of

26:30

them start out with scratch. We teach all

26:32

of those, but with the fun

26:34

robotics we do offer where they could

26:36

just come in and do the programming

26:38

program it, and then download it to our robot.

26:41

But we do find that the kids are most excited

26:43

when they have their own robot and see it work.

26:46

So our real focus online

26:48

curriculum is to. Have

26:50

we so that the robot does their work

26:52

for them. So it will feed the pet,

26:54

you know, just really fun things like that, that they can

26:56

show us at home.

26:58

You got a new pet.

27:00

Yeah. Can you show the robot there?

27:03

Yeah. So this, this

27:04

is our, um, our Duino like

27:07

a robot that we use. And then

27:09

we also, uh, use Lego

27:11

Mindstorms as well, EDD three

27:13

and X T, um, and

27:15

the robot inventor. Lego

27:17

just came out

27:18

with, I

27:18

can just imagine, you know, the, uh,

27:21

as a, as a kids signing in to the

27:24

class on videos, seeing

27:26

all the friends that I have now holding

27:28

their own robot, which is the same that I

27:31

have at home. I, I see how

27:33

exciting it is and it's probably, it could be

27:35

very viral. It's going to be something that. Kids

27:38

then want to show their friends, look, look, all

27:40

my friends have the same robot and I

27:42

made, so this is great. And

27:44

I think, um, we, we see that

27:46

kind of, um, that

27:49

kind of engagement innovation in

27:51

this space popping in

27:53

so many verticals, not only in coding

27:55

and robots. Oh, so in arts

27:58

and, and theater online

28:00

and chess online, there are so many

28:02

things that you can do. And

28:05

as I said, was it in this panel or before

28:07

that we're probably still in

28:09

the dinosaur age of online

28:12

Richmond. Like we feel if we were

28:14

able to look at this from

28:16

five years into the future, We

28:18

would say, well, they didn't know how to do anything

28:20

back then, because it is going to change. It's going

28:22

to go to very interesting

28:25

directions. I don't know if it's going to go the

28:27

direction of what mark

28:29

Zuckerberg has presented two weeks ago

28:31

or others, but it's

28:33

going, it's going to say. So

28:36

great. Um, and Gail

28:38

feel free to offer a special, a rate

28:40

for your robot kit to everybody on the webinar

28:43

later on she won,

28:47

but our robots are 125,

28:50

whereas normally oh, but a special

28:52

discount.

28:52

Yes. Yeah.

28:54

I'm just, I'm just getting, cause I'm thinking like everybody,

28:56

a lot of people here are also parents, um,

28:59

that might be, and this is a niche, right?

29:01

It's it's as you said, it's a. It's

29:04

your way to compete in a world with many,

29:06

um, many similar offerings,

29:08

although each and each one has to find

29:11

their own niche. Josh, sorry

29:13

for.

29:15

No, no, no. I know you got really excited when

29:17

Gail was talking about the robot kit for

29:20

the pet cause Dotan has a little puppy,

29:22

so I'm sure he's now very excited about

29:24

getting one of those and is,

29:26

and this videos, we have the cutest videos

29:28

of kids using robots to feed their pad

29:31

or to give them a ball or something.

29:34

It's so

29:34

fun. Awesome. That's awesome. You should share

29:36

them. You've got somebody in the chat here, Alfonso

29:39

from kids they code, um, and

29:41

is interested in Gail's Rob robots.

29:43

So clearly what we've done in the

29:45

last 30 minutes here is created community right

29:47

here. And we're going to talk to Dotan

29:49

about hopefully doing this again and

29:52

getting this group back together because we've had, uh,

29:54

Alfonso, we've had Sam. I know somebody

29:56

else said they get saw Hannah from Texas. So we've got a

29:58

really great group, which has. I

30:01

want to spend some time, two minutes

30:03

each. Okay guys, two minutes sheets,

30:05

Merrick and guru. I know you guys

30:07

wanted to talk about, uh, how you manage

30:09

a large group of teachers. So you

30:12

are on the clock. Merrick. Your hand

30:14

was up first.

30:16

Okay. To ask a brief question.

30:19

I have, uh, one question was

30:22

how many teachers are you onboarding per

30:24

month? And, uh, and

30:26

the really is why did you choose the ability, your

30:28

own LMS versus using

30:30

existing systems? What

30:33

was the evaluation of the

30:35

green card?

30:37

That's a great question. So at any

30:39

point we probably have about

30:41

30 teachers on our staff.

30:44

Um, and actually that's a great clarifying

30:46

question. We're actually not building our

30:48

own LMS. We're integrating

30:51

into an LMS that already

30:53

exists and just making it our own.

30:56

Okay. Okay. I like the clarifying

30:59

and Dotan, I think can, can hop in

31:01

on that. You

31:03

got a minute. Yeah.

31:05

So,

31:06

so we can something or less fat store

31:09

say it's a marketplace where

31:11

our students and, um,

31:13

in collaboration with mentors, they

31:16

develop projects for the real world. So

31:18

essentially that swag cloud is the connection

31:21

between real war and the community.

31:23

So that community. Uh, consists

31:25

of both students as well as mentors.

31:28

So with that in mind, it's, it's

31:30

a, we have a pipe that is, uh,

31:33

clearly defined, uh, to bring

31:35

in a more, um,

31:37

um, you know, so mentors easily

31:40

and, uh, and also

31:42

sort of serving the purpose of solving

31:45

the problem. But

31:47

just to add to what mark

31:50

was saying, we are building our own LMS

31:52

because. We looked at some of

31:54

them and unfortunately we couldn't

31:57

put into, um, most of them.

32:00

So I'd be remiss if I didn't house it

32:02

over to Dota. Cause I'm sure you have some ideas

32:04

about building your own LMS or integrating

32:08

me myself. Um, yes.

32:11

Yeah. I mean, first of all, this was, uh,

32:13

a really, um, really

32:15

inspiring, uh, panel.

32:18

Um, and I think this is just the beginning, as

32:20

I said, we are just at the beginning of this there's

32:23

way more to do and to create and to innovate

32:25

around about. And I like how everybody

32:27

hears also entrepreneur and, and, and

32:30

this whole pandemic actually, um,

32:33

It made us, uh, go

32:35

back to the basics and think,

32:37

what are we best at and what

32:39

can we achieve in this new world? And.

32:43

Uh, you know, you guys are speaking about LMS

32:45

and there are different challenges and problems.

32:47

And I here with everybody here is

32:50

talking about, and I we've been speaking

32:52

with enrichment providers in

32:54

the online space for now for

32:56

over a year and a half. And

32:58

when you are starting an online store,

33:00

you probably go and use something like Shopify,

33:02

right? When you are marketing

33:04

through emails, you'll probably build them. MailChimp

33:08

or something like that. But what if you really

33:10

building an online enrichment business, you

33:12

need to take enrollments, manage teachers,

33:15

right? Uh, schedules, get

33:17

kids on videoconferencing, deliver content,

33:19

collect. Measure engagement.

33:22

Where do you go for that? That's exactly

33:24

the problem click to is solving.

33:26

And that's exactly why we built click two.

33:29

And we are also experts at

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33:43

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33:45

this is a, the what's in it for me, for everybody

33:48

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33:50

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36:27

Obviously there's a,

36:29

there are challenges and problems to solve. So,

36:31

and I think all the experts that participated

36:34

today in the panel are planning to

36:36

grow their online coding, education,

36:39

operation, offering

36:41

business, and really with

36:43

click to that should be an easy test to do.

36:46

Like we say, click to as easy as one

36:48

click and honestly, the. The

36:51

most successful this category of online

36:53

learning is the more successful

36:55

we all going to be. And,

36:57

um, I'm very happy and

37:00

excited that we had this, uh, webinar

37:02

today. We as just said, we, this is part of a

37:04

community that we started. We have a Facebook

37:06

group for the community to continue

37:09

the conversation. So if you still haven't

37:11

got the link, you'll get the link by email,

37:13

probably in the next couple of days,

37:16

please join. And we'll continue the conversation

37:18

there. And now with John. We

37:21

referred to this earlier after a

37:23

breeze, uh, after a

37:25

breeze answer. So what's coming up to.

37:28

Yeah. So we

37:31

have a very large community. We've got

37:33

folks in the chest, spacing, coding,

37:35

and all different types of verticals. One

37:39

of the leaders around the world

37:41

of all of cohort based

37:43

courses is no sire. You've seen

37:46

of nausea. And he is going to

37:48

join us tomorrow on our lifelong

37:50

educators show 10 o'clock east,

37:53

tomorrow, um, Dotan and

37:55

I had the opportunity

37:57

to have burgers with no sire

37:59

in San Diego. He's a good dude to have

38:01

burgers with and he is an even

38:04

better guy just to sit here. And

38:06

learn from, uh, so we

38:08

are bringing no sire to the community. We're

38:10

excited that we brought this panel to our

38:12

community and we're excited that we've

38:14

got these folks here in the chat. So

38:16

I'm going to talk to Dotan on the side

38:18

here about trying to get this group back together, because

38:20

I think that, uh, we do

38:22

truly believe a rising tide is good for

38:25

all ships, obviously, you know, with,

38:27

uh, you know, robot

38:29

academy in any of the other groups and whatever

38:31

Sam is talking about here in the. If

38:34

we're all doing well, it's good for the group. It's

38:36

good for click too. And it's good for

38:38

kids, which is really why we're doing this. So

38:41

wanna appreciate you to want to send,

38:43

thank you to Dotan for putting

38:45

this together. Let's all get back

38:47

together. I'm going to give everybody six

38:50

minutes back in their day because

38:52

we could all use that. So everybody thank you for

38:54

joining us and let's do this again.

38:56

Thank you so much, everyone. Thanks. Guru

38:58

Bri Mara, Gail, and

39:01

we'll be in touch very soon.