Coding club

Last school year, Josie Hwang, Oli Fitzgerald and Grace Phisanuwongrak, Seniors at International Community School (ICS), established the “knights. code()” programming club, referencing the school’s mascot, the knight.

Their goal for the club is to foster a love of programming among Middle and High School students. In today’s technologically driven world, they believe that coding is a very important skill, just like reading and writing, and that everyone should learn how to code. In establishing knights.code() and offering it this year as part of the school’s extracurricular activities roster, the trio hope to instil in students the ability to think in different ways and hone their logical thinking and problem solving skills.

Aside from the club, these three students have been actively involved in other tech projects. Josie also won the EARCOS Global Citizenship Award earlier this year for being “concerned and caring for others, encouraging a sense of community and strongly committed to engagement and action to make the world a better place.” She also joined Grace in a programming competition in 2021 hosted by Technovation, a global tech education non-profit that inspires girls to be leaders and problem solvers in their lives and their community, where they developed an app that enables users to easily find various volunteering opportunities in Singapore. Meanwhile, Oli has also been involved in various internal programming projects for the school.

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