Meet Our Students
Meet the future leaders of technology
Coding Lab® Presents: Step into a world of innovation and boundless creativity with our extraordinary students from our coding classes. Witness the awe-inspiring journey of these young minds as they go from creating captivating games and mobile apps to achieving remarkable milestones, such as winning an Olympiad award in less than six months after learning to code. The next young talent could be your child, ready to embark on an extraordinary coding adventure. Join us and be part of their incredible success story!
#CodingLabStudents: Jacob Xu, 13, NUS High School, HCIC 2023 Gold Award Winner
Meet Jacob, a diligent 13-year-old coder who won the Gold Award in the Hwa Chong Infocomm Challenge (HCIC 2023), achieved a Distinction and Judges’ Choice (Best Presentation) Award at the International Coding Showcase (ICS) 2022, and is currently attending NUS High School, which he got into via DSA!
Earlier in February 2024, Jacob’s team - Team Coding Lab Urban Coders (Ages 13 to 18) -comprising students from Singapore and Japan beat more than 500 teams (and 10,000 participants) to snag the Best Programming Award in the final competition! Jacob was selected to represent his team and share about their project at the final competition, and even had the chance to tour the Microsoft Japan HQ in Shinagawa, Tokyo. 🤩
Read more about his coding journey here!
Geoffrey Cheuk Kit Yee, 14 | Master Category | ICS 2023
Geoffrey Cheuk Kit Yee, 14, presents his Python coding project ‘Goal Tracker’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2023.
"A website that allows users to track their ongoing goals and journalise their recent progress in achieving the goal." - Geoffrey Cheuk Kit Yee
Geoffrey Cheuk Kit Yee’s project and video presentation earned him a Silver and Judges' Choice (Most Promising Coder) in the Master category.
Ankit Maharana, 13 | Master Category | ICS 2023
Ankit Maharana, 13, presents his Python coding project ‘Carbon Footprint Calculator’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2023.
"It is a carbon footprint calculator to make people aware of their impact on life on land." - Ankit Maharana
Ankit Maharana’s project and video presentation earned him a Gold and Judges' Choice (Social Impact) in the Master category.
Abdurrahman bin Subkhan Prawira, 13 | Master Category | ICS 2023
Abdurrahman bin Subkhan Prawira, 13, presents his Python coding project ‘Deforestation Study’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2023.
"Inspired by the United Nations' Goal of Life on Land, this project focuses on deforestation data analysis to enhance awareness of the ongoing global forest loss. Beyond compelling data visualisations, the program features an engaging quiz to test users' understanding." - Abdurrahman bin Subkhan Prawira
Abdurrahman bin Subkhan Prawira’s project and video presentation earned him a Gold and Judges' Choice (Social Impact) in the Master category.
Akshat Seayad, 15 | Master Category | ICS 2023
Akshat Seayad, 15, presents his Python coding project ‘Community Pollution Monitoring’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2023.
"This project mainly focuses on UN goals 4, 14 and 15 and aims to allow citizens/students to contribute to conservation efforts and monitoring of pollution. What we have made is a discord bot, which allows people to report different sightings of environmental hazards. This enables a larger community to contribute to data collection to support researchers' or policy makers' analysis of different trends seen and then respond accordingly." - Akshat Seayad
Akshat Seayad’s project and video presentation earned him a Platinum and Judges' Choice (Most Innovative) in the Master category.
Han Jo Xi, 14 | Master Category | ICS 2023
Han Jo Xi, 14, presents his Python coding project ‘EcoTrackHub’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2023.
"EcoTrackHub is a personal carbon footprint tracker which features signup, footprint calculator, daily footprint tracker, in-depth analysis of daily carbon footprint and more." - Han Jo Xi
Han Jo Xi’s project and video presentation earned him a Platinum and Judges' Choice (Best Design) in the Master category.
#CodingLabStudents: Lucas Tang, 12, and Louis Tang, 10, Henry Park Primary School
We invited 2 passionate brothers, Lucas and Louis Tang, who first began their coding journey with us 4 years ago when they were 9 and 6 years old respectively. They have since accelerated across our S100 Python for teens, and are already pursuing our S200 Electives course at the ages of 12 and 10. Lucas will also be commencing his studies at Hwa Chong Institution in 2023.
Let’s hear from them regarding their experience so far in this blog here!
Andrew Goh, 13, Singapore | Advanced Electives Project Showcase | ICS 2022
Andrew Goh, 13, presents his Python coding project ‘Minecraft Python Minigames’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2022. '
"My project involves integrating Python into Minecraft using the Minecraft Python API for Raspberry PI. I created two games, snake and hide & seek, which are able to be played anywhere, anytime in a Minecraft world." - Andrew Goh
Andrew Goh’s project and video presentation earned him a Distinction and Judges' Choice (Most Creative) in the Advanced Electives category.
Jacob Xu, 11, Singapore | Advanced Electives Project Showcase | ICS 2022
Jacob Xu, 11, presents his Python coding project ‘Ukraine Awareness Website’ for Coding Lab’s International Coding Showcase 2022.
"I developed a website to raise awareness about the Russia-Ukraine War. I used HTML, CSS and JavaScript and published it on Github. On my site, you can watch videos, play the Ukrainian anthem, interact with a Google map of Ukraine and learn more about Ukraine's history and important Ukrainians. I hope that through my project, I can do my part to raise funds to support the Ukrainian children who are badly affected by the war. My code is at: https://github.com/diamond-block/diamond-block.github.io " - Jacob Xu
Jacob Xu’s project and video presentation earned him a Distinction and Judges' Choice (Best Presentation) in the Advanced Electives category.
ICS Student Feature: Christoph Cuan, 16, Distinction, Judges' Choice (Most Creative) and Overall People's Choice
16-year-old Christoph takes us through his Python game version of Connect 4, which he created to entertain people during the pandemic. Watch the project that won him a Distinction, Judges' Choice (Most Creative) and Overall People's Choice in the International Coding Showcase 2021.
Coding Lab Student Feature: Sarah Go, 17, Hwa Chong International
Meet Sarah, our talented young coder. She's gotten an honourable mention at the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), volunteered with the community, and clinched a prestigious scholarship to study Computer Engineering in the USA.
Coding Lab Student Feature: Josephine, 14, Raffles Girls' School
Meet our talented student, Josephine, 14. A member of her school's Infocomm club, she started with Coding Lab in 2017, where she was first introduced to Python programming. She has since progressed upward and can now count programming in C++ as another skill under her belt.
Coding Lab Student Feature: Ziv, 13, Zhonghua Secondary School
Meet 13-year-old Ziv. A creative and fast learner, he picked up coding when he was 11 and hasn't looked back since. He was part of a team that won the code::XtremeApps:: (CXA) 2019 Hackathon (Junior Category) by IMDA and was in the Top 10 Finalists of the Young Coders Global Hackathon 2020.
Coding Lab Student Feature: Alicia, 16, Nanyang Girls' High School
Meet Alicia. At 16 years old and with just two years of coding, she came up with the novel idea of a program that would allow drivers to check the availability of public carparks – and breathed life into it in just two hours during her Data Analytics class.
Coding Lab Student Feature: Ian, 14, Hwa Chong Institution
Introducing Silver Plus, a facebook for the elderly created by our very own Ian, 14. The idea which was conceived and designed entirely by Ian, was to enable our elderly to engage with each other, make new friends, and even play games across their mobile phones.