Google India Code to Learn Contest 2016

About

In support of Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, nurturing the spirit of scientific inquiry and creativity,  Google India has been running the Code to Learn competition to ignite the curiosity of young minds of schools towards coding.

Google, believes that students can actually be introduced to programming and Computer Science in a much more fun and engaging way. Several tools and methods for introducing programming to school students have been around but two of the most prominent of those are Scratch and App Inventor - both developed at MIT. 

This summer Google invites students in classes 5 to 10 from any school in India to participate in the Google India Code to Learn contest 2016 and the submission of the projects need to be done by their  Parents or Legal Guardians.Students can create their projects in Scratch or App Inventor and submit them on the contest site.The Registration have opened on May 11, 2016 and will close on July 31,2016.

Eligibility

Gender; Both
Region: India
Class/ Age: Class 5-10

Details:The contest is open to all students in classes 5 to 10 enrolled at any school in India.

The students will compete in three class groups:

• Group 1: Classes 5 & 6
• Group 2: Classes 7 & 8
• Group 3: Classes 9 & 10

Not Eligible to participate

• Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders, as well as their immediate families, of Google, its affiliates, and any representatives or agencies of Google or other persons professionally connected with the contest are not eligible to participate.

Selection Process:

The selection of the participant is based on:

• Originality - a unique and novel idea of the project.
• Application of Computer Science concepts - number of different concepts applied and their relevance to the project idea. Standard concepts include Variables, Looping, Conditional execution, Input and Output.
• Complexity of the project - as measured using standard techniques for analysis of algorithms.

The judges will select 10 finalists from each class group.

All the 10 finalists from each class group will go through a second round of judging to select 3 winners from each group.

Prizes

The 9 winners (3 from each class group) will get a certificate of achievement and a Nexus tablet or Chromebook laptop or an equivalent gift.

All the finalists will get a certificate of achievement.

How To Apply

The Submission for the participants is to be done by their Parents or Legal Guardian. The students can use Scratch and App Inventor for the purpose of coding. Once the coding has been done the project is to be shared using Google Drive. The details of the process are as follow:

• Coding Platform: The students can use Scratch or App inventor to create their projects. Both these tools are user-friendly and designed especially for children by MIT.

• Submission: The projects are to be shared using Google Drive. Create a folder on your Google Drive. Upload or Copy the files related to the project to the new folder.In case of App Inventor, upload only ‘.aia’ files not ‘.apk’ files.After the copy or upload is done, share the folder with code2learn@google.com. Once the folder has been shared, the link of the folder needs to be pasted on the submission page.

Important Links

https://codetolearn.withgoogle.com/code2learn2016

https://codetolearn.withgoogle.com/explorer

Important Dates

• Online Submission opens on: 20th June, 2016
• Online Submission closes on: 31st July, 2016
• Announcement of finalists: On or after 15th September, 2016
• Announcement of winners: On or after 30th September, 2016