Florin Alexandru, ADEMED | Meet and Code 2021 Award Winner, Diversity Category
Channel: Asociatia Techsoup Romania
Date: 2022-05-25

The 2021 Meet and Code (https://meet-and-code.org/) event "We Can Code! Tactile Scratch for Visually Impaired Students" organized by Association for Development and Environment - ADEMED from Romania won the 1st Prize in the Diversity Category, in the Meet and Code Award Competition.


This inclusive event (https://meet-and-code.org/ro/ro/event-show/6491) empowered visually impaired students and their teachers and challenged them to practice coding in real-life situations. It also showed that visually impaired students can learn programming without expensive equipment, which is especially of great importance for those who lack financial resources.


Meet and Code is a trans-european initiative created and financed by SAP in partnership with Haus des Stiftens gGmbH from Germany and TechSoup Europe partners. It offers support and micro-granting for small and medium educational NGOs to build technology and coding events aligned with the European Commission's initiative: Europe Code Week. 


Meet and Code Romania is run (since 2017) in Romania by Asociatia Techsoup.