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Coding Klassenfahrt (Coding Class Trips)
Germany · Berlin · National · See the Germany profile
The Coding Klassenfahrt, initiated by the Technology Foundation Berlin and Samsung as an extracurricular offer of digital education, supports curious students and their teachers to enter the world of programming with the knowledge of the coaches and specific hardware (the Samsung
200 students (approx.)
Students involved, first edition (2018)
6 projects
School projects selected, first edition (2018)
Details
- Promoter
- Samsung Electronics GmbH — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ended
- Target groups
- People with disabilities, Marginalised young people and children
- People reached
- 200
- People targeted
- 200
- Period
- 2018-02-11 – 2018-03-13
- Region (NUTS)
DE30- Keywords
- digital world, coding, technology
Context
Technology Foundation Berlin and Samsung created the Coding Klassenfahrt to bring coding and hardware experimentation into German school class trips, addressing the gap left by tightly timed curricula that leave little room for hands-on digital-skills teaching in regular classrooms.
Objectives
Give school classes and teachers a low-pressure, hands-on introduction to coding and programming; embed coding in subjects beyond computer science (physics, biology, maths, German, art); and build teacher/student confidence with hardware and independent programming.
Activities
School classes applied with a project idea; six were selected for the first edition (2018) and carried out projects during class trips using the Samsung Code Week Box (Arduino Uno, sensors, motors, etc.) with support from coding coaches — e.g. an automatic casting system, a sensor Olympiad, renewable-energy work at Wangerooge, environmental-data robots built from beach litter at Usedom, and hydroelectric energy research at Rotenburg an der Fulda. A Social Hub let participants share posts, and downloadable open educational resources (OERs) were produced for teachers and students.
Results
Approximately 200 students took part across the six selected class-trip projects in the first edition (2018).
Conclusions
The source labels this 'Evaluation: Yes' but the full description gives no evaluation methodology or measured outcomes beyond participation counts and project narratives — treated here conservatively as a descriptive account.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k) — Involves hardware kits, coach travel and a national selection/support operation (7 staff) — a moderate-cost model relative to purely local classroom programmes.
- Time to results
- Short (< 1 year) — First edition ran over roughly one month (11 Feb–13 Mar 2018) of on-site class trips, following an application period.
- Staffing & skills
- Coding coaches accompanying each selected school class, 7 operational staff supporting delivery (Technology Foundation Berlin / Samsung)
Conditions for success
- Competitive application process to select viable, well-scoped class projects
- Provision of a self-contained hardware kit (Samsung Code Week Box) so schools don't need existing equipment
- Teaching materials (OERs) and a Social Hub to sustain engagement after the trip
Common failure modes
- Only 6 of many applicant classes were selected, limiting reach relative to demand
- Depends on physical class trips and coach availability, raising logistics/cost per participant
- No quantified evidence of learning-outcome improvement, only participation and project descriptions
Where it fits
- Governance type
- corporate foundation / school partnership
- Scale
- national
- Income level
- high-income (Germany)
Commonly funded by
Philanthropic / foundation funding
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
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