Showing posts with label northamptonshire county council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label northamptonshire county council. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Award-winning Coding Competition launched


This is a collaboration between:


The rules have been changed to allow teams from all over the UK now to participate.

·         How old do I need to be to enter the competition?Team members must have been born between 1 September 2006 and 31 August 2009
·         How many team members do we need to enter the competition?
Teams need to consist of between three to six members of children of the eligible age.
·         How do we register our team?
A teacher, adult supervisor or Code Club volunteer needs to register your team on the Coding Competition website. The individual responsible for registering your team must be able to demonstrate UK residency.

Hope this is of interest. The hashtag for this is #TheCodingComp





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Friday, 13 January 2017

Environmental Award for Computing




Gary Hill and Scott Turner from the Computing subject team were, and still are part, of a team working on the Race to the Top Schools Coding Competition the other partners are Northamptonshire County Council, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and Code Club. The project has been recognised by a Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice.

More details on the competition can be found at: https://computingnorthampton.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/race-to-top-coding-competition.html

Other Partners
- Northampton County Council: 
http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Environ/carbon/Pages/default.aspx

- Worshipful Company of Information Technologists: 
https://www.wcit.org.uk/members/anon/new.html?destination=%2Findex.html

- Code Club: 
https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with. Twitter: @scottturneruon