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Ages 9-12Beginner

Cloud Explorers

Discover where the internet lives and deploy your first app

10 weeks📅 2 × 45 min/week🏆 Certificate: Cloud Builder Level 1

Safe, child-friendly learning

About this course

Students demystify the cloud, learn how data moves across the internet, and deploy a real webpage that anyone in the world can visit — using the same tools as professional developers.

What you'll learn

  • Explain what cloud computing is and why it matters
  • Understand how websites are stored and served
  • Write basic HTML to create a web page
  • Deploy a live website using Vercel
  • Understand domains and how the internet works

Curriculum

Week 1–2What Is the Cloud?
  • · Local vs. cloud storage
  • · How servers work
  • · Famous cloud companies
Week 3–4HTML Basics
  • · Tags, headings, paragraphs
  • · Images and links
  • · Your first page
Week 5–6Styling with CSS
  • · Colors and fonts
  • · Boxes and layout
  • · Making it look great
Week 7–8GitHub & Version Control
  • · What is Git?
  • · Saving your work
  • · Sharing code
Week 9–10Deploy to the World
  • · Connecting to Vercel
  • · Live URL walkthrough
  • · Share with family

Final Project

Build and deploy a personal webpage — students receive their own live .vercel.app URL

Tools

  • VS Code
  • GitHub
  • Vercel
  • Nimbus AI
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Certificate of Completion

Cloud Builder Level 1

Awarded upon completing all lessons and submitting your final project.

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