CodePlay Katta - Gamified Offline-First Programming Club for Kids

CodePlay Katta is an offline, gamified learning initiative designed to teach programming fundamentals to 5th–6th grade children in India without the need for technology. Targeting kids addicted to YouTube and mobile games, it uses storytelling, physical logic games, roleplay, and creative challenges to build programming logic like sequences, loops, conditions, and debugging. Activities include flowchart hopscotch, logic card games, puzzle boxes, and "YouTuber for a day" roleplay. Kids earn “CodeCoins” as rewards to keep them engaged. Designed for schools and communities with limited tech infrastructure, it’s low-cost, scalable, and can be run by teachers or volunteers. The goal is to replace screen addiction with real-world creativity and teamwork, while planting the seeds of computational thinking early in life.