FLO Vadodara, under the leadership of Chairperson Ms. Shivani P. Patel, organized a coding session for the students of Utkarsh Vidyalaya under STEM education as part of the National Initiative of FICCI FLO, aimed at equipping students with skills required for the future economy. Mr. Pallav Shah, founder and CEO of RoboCodeVeda, led the session to teach future-ready skills related to STEM and coding.
The initiative seeks to unlock the creative and engineering potential of young learners through innovative and practical learning methods, emphasizing the organization’s core values of innovation, hands-on education, and future-ready thinking. During the session, students were introduced to coding as the process of converting human language into machine language, which forms the foundation of modern technology.
Using visual programming platforms such as Scratch and VizBloc, students engaged in creating interactive games, animations, and digital art projects while exploring mathematical and geometric algorithms. The program, adapted from MIT’s Scratch and enhanced by RoboCodeVeda and Imagination.io, included retrainable reporting tools to help students track and refine their learning.
Examples like the Mathematics Game on Scratch illustrated how coding integrates logic, creativity, and problem-solving in real-world applications. The two-hour workshop began with a welcome and introduction of FICCI FLO and RoboCodeVeda, along with a discussion on the importance of coding. Students were then introduced to the VizBloc platform, learning how to navigate the block-based coding software.
They started with a simple “Hello Animation” project, creating animations with character movement, speech bubbles, and background changes. This was followed by a fun game project, “Maze Runner,” where students designed a maze game with character movement and obstacles. In the creative “Smart Calculator” project, students built calculators for Volume, Area, Perimeter, or Age, learning about variables and inputs.
Around 120 students attended this engaging session. It concluded with a wrap-up and showcase, where students presented their projects, recapped key coding concepts such as events, loops, and variables, and received a closing message. This initiative by FICCI FLO Vadodara for the students of Utkarsh Vidyalaya demonstrated that STEM and coding education go beyond technical skills—they foster creativity, problem-solving, and innovation, preparing students to become future-ready leaders and innovators in technology and STEM fields.