• With more than 1.1 million users in more than 150 countries, achieved in the last 5 months organically, pre-launch
• Hatch Kids enables students ages 6-18 to create 3D games, AR/VR apps, and immersive Metaverse experiences with no prior coding or design experience.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Camp K12, an educational technology startup creating a global online school for 21st century skills for children ages 5-18, today announced the launch of kids hatchits own Metaverse and AR/VR creation platform for young learners.

Camp K12 originally created the Hatch Kids platform to use for its own online coding courses, but after seeing strong demand from educators and students while working with early partners, it is now opening the platform for any organization to use at no cost. , along with free AR/VR Curriculum Modules for educators and schools.

In the past 6 months, Hatch Kids has organically grown to over 1.1 million users in 150 countries through school, government, and edtech partnerships, with 75% of users hailing from the US and Canada. Other major geographies include the UK, AustraliaY India. Students have created more than 3.6 million projects on the platform to date.

Speaking of Hatch’s vision, co-founder and CEO of Camp K12, Anshul Bhagisaid “There are over 100 million children’s programmers today who use a variety of free coding platforms to learn programming by creating games and apps. These platforms are incredibly effective and laid the groundwork for the children’s programming movement in 2007 , however, the vast majority of them are restricted to the creation of 2D projects, created for the age of smartphones and flat screens.As technologies like AR and VR become more widespread, we need to update the tools with which kids learn and educators teach for modern content formats and use cases. We built Hatch as a kids coding platform for the Metaverse era. We want to give over 100 million young kids their first coding experience AR/VR and the self-confidence to be builders in the inevitable future of Mixed Reality instead of consumers passive goers. .”

The platform is being used today by governments (including the Government of Delhiin India), and hundreds of schools and ed-techs around the world. In December, Hatch Kids was featured on Code.org as an “Hour of Code” activity and today has grown to be the #1 most popular activity for students in grades 6-8 and the #3 most popular activity generally in the Code. org ecosystem “Hour of Code”.

The team expects more than 2 million MAUs to December 2022driven by both direct consumption to students and partnerships with more than 1,500 schools, ed-tech, and additional government agencies worldwide by the end of the year.

About Hatch Kids:

kids hatch is a free online creation platform for kids that makes it possible for students ages 6-18 to create 3D, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Metaverse experiences with ease, in an era where kids they are captivated by 3D games like Roblox and Minecraft, and yet the major coding platforms for kids are still restricted to creating 2D projects.

Hatch Kids supports all K-12 age groups and experience levels. Younger students and first-time programmers can create using a block-based visual programming environment similar to MIT Scratch, while older or more experienced students can create advanced 3D applications using JavaScript. Students can instantly publish and share their creations across millions of compatible devices, including iPads, smartphones, professional VR headsets, laptops, and desktops through a simple QR code scan or shared link.

Educators, organizations, and parents can use Hatch Kids to teach kids programming and other STEM subjects in the most immersive way (kids learn best when they’re engaged, and nothing is more engaging to a child than the act of creating worlds in 3D that he/she she can walk and share with friends). Hatch Kids is iPad and Chromebook compatible for use in schools.

About Camp K12:

Camp K12 is a global online school for 21st century skills, teaching coding and other STEM subjects to kids ages 5-18 through LIVE, interactive, gamified online sessions that work 10x better than the status quo . the company has risen $16 million to date, run by Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners India, and serving over 400k students across North America, middle East, IndiaY Southeast Asia.

About the creators

Anshul, Co-Founder and CEO of Camp K12, has been passionate about creating coding tools for kids and making coding easy and fun for kids for over a decade. He studied computer science MITHe has previously held development roles at companies such as Google and Microsoft, and was part of the MIT who developed “MIT AppInventor,” a free online platform that gave kids the power to design, code, and publish mobile apps for smartphones without any prior experience.

AppInventor today is used by more than 13 million students worldwide and, in the age of smartphone development, it was the first platform to make mobile app creation accessible to children. Anshul hopes to repeat that feat for the Metaverse and AR/VR era today with the creation of Hatch Kids.

SOURCE Camp K12