COBO CO., Ltd. (COBO), the developer of COBOBLOCKS, has signed an MOU with The Poway Unified School District (PUSD). In photo, Youngsook Lee, COBO CEO and Marian Kim Phelps, Superintendent of PUSD

PUSD(https://www.powayusd.com) is located in northern San Diego County, California. PUSD operates 41 schools located in the cities of San Diego and Poway: 25 elementary schools (TK-5), two elementary & middle school combination (TK-8th), six middle schools (6-8), one continuation high school, five comprehensive high schools (9-12), one middle college and one adult school. PUSD serves over 35,000 students and is the third largest school district in San Diego County.

COBOBLOCKS is a hands-on, unplugged coding kit designed for young learners. Children can build with blocks, create visual code sequences, and bring robots to life—making them draw, move, and explore logic. The kit is suitable for kids from preschool to elementary school.

Through this MOU, both the PUSD and COBO provide an up-to-date Scratch Coding Education tool by electronic blocks and do pilot e-Block scratch coding tools to PUSD students.

COBOBLOCKS is a hand-on physical scratch modeled after Scratch made by MIT in the United States. Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language which was developed by MIT. Scratch is also used in more than 200 different countries and territories and is available in more than 70 languages.

Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem solving skills; creative teaching; learning etc. Children, the elderly, and the disabled who have difficulty learning Scratch in a computing environment can easily learn COBOBLOCKS.

Children who have learned COBOBLOCKS can easily learn MIT Scratch. Therefore, even young children, the elderly, and people with disabilities who cannot learn scratches can easily learn computational Thinking skills, problem solving skills, and creative teaching etc.

In order to apply COBOBLOCKS to PUSD’s classes, COBO conducted training for vice-principal and STEM teachers at Deer Caynon Elementary School.
Nam, a teacher who participated in the training, said he was confident that COBOBLOCKS would be a very useful tool for students.

Scratch is also being used in CS50, a liberal arts course at Harvard University in the United States. Therefore, it is expected that students learning COBOBLOCKS will be able to do better with scratches in the future by reducing their resistance to scratches and learning them in advance.