Aloha from Kai Coders – 2026 Spring Update

Supporting STEM nights, one school at a time.

It’s been an exciting (and busy!) start to the year at Kai Coders. We’ve been having so much fun building, creating, and coding with your students that we wanted to take a moment to share what we’ve been up to.

Scratch Day at the Delaware Museum of 

Nature & Science

What started as an idea turned into something truly incredible. This February, we co-hosted Delaware’s first official Scratch Day—and welcomed over 700 attendees throughout the day.

From coding stations and Makey Makey creations to music, movement, and hands-on STEM activities, families experienced the joy of coding in a whole new way. Watching kids light up as they created (not just consumed) technology was everything.

Weekly Tech Ed Programs in Red Clay & Brandywine Schools

Across our partner schools, Kai Coders students are showing up ready to think, create, and code every week.

You’ll find us at:

• Magical Mondays @ Harlan Elementary School

• We Rise Wednesdays @ Lewis Dual Language Elementary School

• Warner Elementary School After-School (2 days/week)

• North Star Elementary School After-School (2 days/week)

• Maple Lane Elementary School After-School

From learning what makes a computer a computer to building interactive games and animations, students are growing their confidence and skills with each session. Debugging is quickly becoming a strength for many of our students.

Kai Coders By The Numbers

A snapshot of what we’ve been building together this spring.

• 700+ attendees at Scratch Day

• 850+ students served weekly across our school programs

• 1,000+ students reached through community events

• Thousands of student-created projects

  

  Kai Coders coaches at work! Small groups. Big confidence.😍

They Coded What?!

Black Brilliance Soundboard

At Lewis Dual Language Elementary School, our 4th grade students created a Black

See it. Code it. Be it.

Brilliance Soundboard—and coded it in both English and Spanish.

As part of Black History Month, students explored innovators in STEM including Jerry Lawson, Ayanna Howard, Joy Buolamwini, Mae Jemison, and Gladys West.

They then built an interactive project where users can tap to hear audio clips—in both languages—sharing the stories and impact of these leaders.

And at the end of each project? A mirror labeled “YOU!”

Because the message is clear:

Students aren’t just learning about people in STEM…They’re seeing themselves as the next ones to lead. 💛

Programs That Go Beyond the Classroom

🏆 Celebrating Our Odyssey of the Mind Team

We’re incredibly proud of our Kai Coders Odyssey of the Mind team this season.

Creative thinkers. Problem solvers. 3rd place at States! 💗

Our Division 3 team—made up of 4 freshmen and 3 eighth graders—earned an impressive 3rd place finish at the state level.

Engineering Your Tomorrow

We had the opportunity to work with over 100 middle school girls at Engineering Your Tomorrow, where coding met real-world problem solving.

Students used OctoStudio to code solutions to environmental challenges—showing how programming can be a powerful tool for understanding and improving the world around them.

Community Connections

We also loved supporting our community—helping a Girl Scout Brownie troop earn STEM badges and donating STEM raffle baskets to Claymont Elementary School, Mt. Pleasant Elementary School, and Harlan Elementary School family STEM nights.

Looking Ahead: Summer Camps! 

As we head into summer, we’re excited to continue building with our students in new ways. Our Kai Coders Summer Camps at Cab Calloway School of the Arts are now open for registration, offering hands-on coding, creativity, and STEM exploration.

Click here for more info: https://www.kaicoders.com/summercamp

We’re also working on a new Hockessin camp option (week of August 17–21) with multiple cohorts—more details coming soon. Planned cohorts include Grades 1–2, 3–5, and 6–8 so students can learn alongside peers at a similar level.

Mahalo for Being Part of Our Ohana

As we celebrated 5 years of Kai Coders this February, we were reminded that none of this would be possible without our students, families, schools, PTAs, and community partners—thank you for being part of our journey.

Interested in bringing Kai Coders to your school or community? Visit www.kaicoders.com

Until next time…

Keep thinking, creating, and coding—with Aloha.

~Team Kai Coders

Celebrating Scratch Day—and 5 years of Kai Coders.🎉