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Earlier this month, some of our tech team stepped out of the office and into Perth Children’s Hospital to mentor young patients at an offsite CoderDojo event. By partnering with Child and Adolescent Health Service and the School of Special Educational Needs: Medical and Mental Health, the kids learned the fundamentals of programming, helping improve digital literacy through hands-on activities with coding tools and robots. For our mentors, it was about more than teaching code, it was about sparking curiosity and showing what’s possible in the world of tech. As Tech Grad Melissa Frattura (pictured in the third photo) shared: “I’m basically a big kid at heart, so getting to work with kids and see their excitement as they bring their ideas to life by using programming tools and working with robots is so rewarding. If I’d had access to experiences like this when I was younger, I might’ve found my way into this career even sooner.”