EveryJuan Can Code

A very small percentage of the Philippine population is into STEM courses and coding. We hope to change that by organizing different events and workshops in Philippines universities, colleges and including the public school system to promote the benefits of coding. The Philippines is on the cusp of building the first technology unicorn and we hope to help the country develop more startup founders and tech leaders who will create solutions that have global impact.

We will target the faculty and student population in the Philippines. There are over 2,000 colleges and universities in the country that we will work with at first.

We will be mostly working with different schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines. We will work with different institutions to offer curriculum that help develop their students ability to understand coding and learn how to code themselves.

Coding workshops and technology events designed at inspiring and developing the next generation of technology leaders in the Philippines. Technology workshops teaching coding through Apple and different technology platforms such as Swift, Unity, among many others. App development challenge up to grade school level to encourage coding even among the children ages 5 and up.

Our solution makes use of existing student and teacher populations and just empowering them with the right kind of inspiration and also toolkits. Coding can be a game-changer for many students. And we hope to start them even as young as grade school pupils.

We will use existing technology platforms like Swift from Apple, Unity and others to teach students how to code and build simple games and applications.

We believe that every child and Filipino should be able to learn coding or at least understand how coding works. All our phones, gadgets and the applications we use are powered by coding and programming, and it's critical every Filipino learn how this works so that we can be active participants in creating solutions that address social issues that can have global implications.

Currently, we have pilot-tested our approach to around 250 students and teachers and individuals from the private sector. We hope to serve close to 1,000 more in the next 12 months who will become champions in their respective schools or organizations. We hope to impact close to 100,000 students in the next 5 years.

We hope to find and train champions on coding per every academic institution in the Philippines. For tertiary level institutions, we are looking at 2,000 colleges and universities which is where we will start and expand to grade schools and high schools.

The main challenge is the internet penetration and speed in the Philippines. With only two major telco players, the internet/date speed is quite slow compared to our ASEAN neighbors.

We hope to develop downloadable lectures and tutorials and programs so that even without the internet, our target population can access our programs. We will also conduct and organize different EveryJuan Can Code events along with partners and bring it to the countryside.

EveryJuan Can Code is a community now between Power Mac Center, Apple's retailer in the Philippines, and me, Jay Jaboneta, to spread the benefits of learning coding to different schools in the Philippines. We hope to register it as a nonprofit in the next 12 months.

Around 5 full time staff and less than 20 volunteers. But we already have partnerships with the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation, and a number of schools.

I have co-founded several nonprofits in the Philippines and I consult with different schools. I partnered with Power Mac Center as they have the technical know-how on coding and programming and they can bring in their tools like iPads and iPhones for free when we are conducting our workshops.

Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation is a nonprofit that provides school boats to children who swim or wade through waters to get to school - we are identifying potential rural communities where we can pilot test the project. Initially, we have now conducted our training to a number of Lasallian schools in the country.

Right now, it is like a CSR project but we hope to charge for future coding events and camps that we will conduct to defray costs.

We are looking at charging for our programs to sustain the expansion to more schools and organizations and communities in the future.

We believe Solve can help us partner with more technology companies and providers that can extend support to our programs and expand the range of coding platforms that we can teach.

We are looking to partner with the Philippines Department of Education and other global technology players.

At some point, we hope to create solutions that teach coding using AI.

We believe our coding workshops will strengthen communities to create their own technology-based solutions to social problems that can even have global impact. Last January, we were able to train Grade 4 level students to create their own apps where they created a game that teaches English to toddlers.

We believe our coding workshops will strengthen communities to create their own technology-based solutions to social problems that can even have global impact. Last January, we were able to train Grade 4 level students to create their own apps where they created a game that teaches English to toddlers.