One of my responsibilities at Transamerica's Innovation team is to create programs for our company's Responsible Business Strategy.

In one of our innovation lab session I suggested that we should create a three day pilot coding camp for kids with a financial literacy subject that would help enrich our communities, keep our employees engaged and help promote employee pride.

With four team members of our Innovation group we worked together to put a small pilot program in place for about 10 children of employees.

My part in the coding camp was to teach the children block coding with MIT’s Scratch programing language and UBtech’s buzzbot & mutt bot kit that uses an app with block coding so users can custom code their robot’s moves.

The pilot program was such a success that will be launching a full week program in 2018.