Online Cultivation of Volunteers toward Support for Education of Programming in Elementary School

Abstract

For the starting of Programming education in elementary school from FY2020, it is necessary to keep the people who has skills of technical programming, education and volunteer for children. These kinds of human resources should be ideally organized from the people who lives in the local area around the school. Authors have been conducted cultivation this kind of volunteers from 2018, almost 20 senior members were joined and they are learning for several techniques of programming and its thinking method. Under the COVID-19 disease, the courses of cultivation of volunteers for programming have been also forced to change the learning method to online. The activities of our courses have been reported, then the problems and its solutions have been discussed.