The Cambridge-based partnership of global schools publisher Cambridge University Press, exam board OCR, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation today launched their
Hour of Code: Cambridge GCSE Computing Competition.
The competition, which was inspired by the national
Hour of Code Week, gives UK schools and students the opportunity to share their innovative coding projects by creating their own videos to introduce others to the pleasures of coding.
The awards are spilt into three categories: creating a video introduction to coding, creating a video for
Variables and Constants or Arrays, and creating a self-marking test.
The winning entry in each category will win a class set of Raspberry Pi microcomputers and £500 computing vouchers for their school. In addition, the best entries will be included on the Cambridge GCSE Computing (MOOC) itself.
The closing date for the competition is 17 March 2014 and the finalists will be announced in April 2014. The competition is open to all schools in the UK with student’s aged 11–16.
For more information and to submit your entry, please
click here.
