Manish Sisodia launches CODE-A-THON campaign for delhi government school students

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia launched a CODE-A-THON campaign on Thursday. In this campaign, over 12,000 government school students will be taking part.

The event was held at Veer Savarkar Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Kalkaji. At the launch event, from various students, there were 6 students who presented their animated videos which they made from scratch on their smartphones. The topic of their video included 'good touch-bad touch', 'saving the environment', 'Beti padhao, Beti Bachao' and public awareness about the coronavirus.

"We started the coding project in January this year in



collaboration with SheCodes foundation where 870 girl students have been given training till now. Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we decided to make it online. Now, we envision this programme to become even bigger," Sisodia said at the event.

As part of the CODE-A-THON campaign, students will go through self-learning modules on coding and will get an opportunity to practice it.

The students will take part in various quizzes and based on that, they will jump to the next level. The students will also get the opportunity to showcase their projects. The grand finale will be held in December.