"Who wants to join the Vanishing Homework Club?" Mrs. Melody announced, her voice echoing a little too loudly in the quiet classroom. Ten-year-old Bell, with her bright, curious eyes and a perpetually rumpled backpack, looked up from her doodle of a flying unicorn. She exchanged a bewildered glance with her best friend, Pye, who was busy trying to balance a pencil on his nose. Vanishing Homework...
The air buzzed with excitement, a mixture of cotton candy sweetness and the whirring of tiny robots. Colorful balloons bobbed against the bright blue sky, shaped like cartoon characters and computer mice. Streamers, printed with lines of code, fluttered from every booth. This was the Coding Carnival, a place where learning to code felt like playing the best game ever.
