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Tel: (852) 2778 2118 Address: Beautiful Group Tower, 702 7/F and 2202 22/F, 74-77 Connaught Rd Central, Central, Hong Kong Website: quantumprep.com.hk Hong Kong is a vibrant international city where residents are always busy with their work or some other activities. People coming from all over the world bring their culture, competencies, and creativity, which directly reflect on various classes and extra-curricular activities offered throughout the city for children starting from toddler age as well as adults until nineties plus. These activities include, art classes, dance classes, music classes, cultural activities, brain teasers, sports, martial arts, cooking, baking, exhibitions, fashions, etc.

Learning/Educational programs:

Beyond Schooling: As part of community service, Beyond Schooling (non-profit venture launched by International Desi) offers a variety of classes, such as Vedic math, competitive math, creative writing, debating and influencing, critical thinking, problem solving, mind-mapping and clear thinking, independence, yoga, meditation, healthy eating, etc.

Character building classes through vedic values, Sanskar Shibir, Dinacharya classes are conducted online on a regular basis thorugh out the year.

If you want to improve your children’s confidence, communication, and critical thinking and overall mental thinking pattern, this will

be your one-stop-shop. The children will be given the opportunity to finesse their public and persuasive speaking as well as develop core math and life skills to help them succeed both now and in the future. Beyond Schooling’s programs (for ages 6 to 14+ years) are available online.

These skills are offered to kids at a tender age to adopt these skills at a tender age and prepare themselves for the future.

Needy children can opt for scholarships. Big-hearted people can donate the classes to needy children or gift the classes to the relative’s kid anywhere in the world.

Email: hongkong.desi@gmail.com Chinmaya Mission: This is part of Global Chinmaya Mission.

The goal of the Bala Vihar (Exploration program for children) is to “wake up the sleeping giant” within and inspire them to reach their maximum potential. This is achieved by imparting a value-based education through a specially designed, age-appropriate curriculum that has been carefully developed by expert Chinmaya Acharyas (teachers) delivered across Hong Kong and Kowloon in English.

Address: 11/F, Ocean View Court, 43 Mody Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui Tel: (852) 2367 3390 Coding: As technology is catching up faster with kids these days, you may want to keep your kids up to the mark and make them go with the pace around. That’s when coding classes come in, if your kids are more technology inclined.

First Code Academy: Coding is like a

language; it takes commitment and practise to master this concept. The First Code Academy offers a curriculum carefully tailored to suit students at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Through their core programs and project-based learning, students build a strong coding, design thinking, and computational thinking. For the ones looking for crash courses, it offers three-day camps during major holidays. The academy operates in three branches:

Sheung Wan: 5/F, Gee Tuck Building,16-20 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 27722108 Yau Ma Tei: Unit 404, 4/F, Kowloon Building, 555 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Tel: (852) 27722161 Fortress Hill: Unit 11B, 11/F, KP Tower, 93-95 King’s Road, North Point Tel: (852) 27723077. Email: hello@firstcodeacademy.com Website: www.hk.firstcodeacademy.com Cobo Academy: It offers classes to kids between the ages of 4-15. It also provides a quality; project-based learning system to kids of all levels and offers autumn camps and winter camps for kids, with good discounts.

Address: Yam Tze Commercial Building, 6/F, 23 Thomson Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 3905 1111 Email: hi@coboacademy.com Website: www.coboacademy.com

For coding, you can look at few more institutes: Coding 101, Koding Kingdom, Tiny Code, and Creative Coding

Children classes by Metropolis Muse-

um: These are interesting story telling sessions, art exploration, and other interesting classes for children 2 years and up.

Story telling sessions are offered in English as well as in Mandarin. They also offer varieties of social interaction classes to develop a child’s inquisitive mind, critical thinking, and high EQ.

To register for any of these online activities, download and sign into the Metropolis Museum app and you may be able to get some discount that is announced time to time by the Museum. Khan Academy: Khan Academy is one of the popular online academies based out of the US. It offers many academic as well as non-academic courses for every age group child. They use various teaching methods, such as

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