For School Stuents
Who can enter
Exclusively for students in middle schools or senior colleges in the Northern Territory.
Objective
Design and program a maximum of 2-minute interactive story using Scratch that promotes the unique features and attractions of the Northern Territory while incorporating coding concepts and storytelling techniques. Students will need to provide a final scratch file after they have completed it. You can choose to work as a team or individually.
Prizes
- The winner will be invited to join us at CDU IT Code Fair on Thursday 3rd November 2023, at DoubleTree by the Hilton Hotel at Esplanade.
- The prize includes a $300 gift voucher and a certificate.
Important Date
- Submission Open: 25/05/2023
- Submission Deadline: 22/10/2023
- Winner announcement: 31/10/2023
Judging criteria
Your project will be judged by 4 criteria as follows:
- Idea (25%)–The concept is well explained, with details on how reasonable, sustainable and scalable the concept is.
- Creativity (25%) – Exceptionally clever and unique in showing deep understanding and doing things out of the box.
- Desirability (25%) – Uses information in connection with the argument or purpose of the work, presents it in a highly effective format, and explicates it with consistently high quality.
- Video Quality (25%) – The viewers are left with a strong understanding of the topic, will remember the video, and feel like they want to learn more.
Challenge rules
- If you choose to work as a team, teams may not have more than 4 members. Only one submission per student/team.
- Turn in your submission by uploading your video and propose your idea through a short video of a maximum of 2 minutes by uploading to Flipgrid at https://flip.com/008bd5f9.
- Students can work on submissions at school or home.
- Submissions must be turned in by 22/10/2023.