Kodu Kup Europe: A great start to computing!

Teachers, are you looking forward to getting started with coding in the classroom? Schools from across Europe are invited to take part in Kodu Kup Europe, the first European Kodu competition that challenges pupils to develop their own games using the user-friendly Kodu Game Lab tools. Get the chance to bring your students in the heart of Europe: the finalist teams will be invited to a Coding Camp in Brussels in October. Hurry up, there are only less than 6 weeks left to participate in the competition.

WHAT IS KODU?

Kodu Game Lab is a visual programming language for creating games, accessible for children as young as 6 year olds and enjoyable for anyone. What made it so famous worldwide is that it is very easy and visually attractive and yet it allows for high degree of computational thinking and programming fundamentals. With strong links to numeracy and literacy, as well as science, maths and geography, teachers can use it across the curriculum.

WHAT IS THE COMPETITION ABOUT?

Pupils are challenged to develop their own games using the Kodu Game Lab tools and thus take their first steps in coding (e.g. using directional commands, creating imaginary worlds, conditional loops, modelling and simulations). All team members must be within 6 to 16 years old and they can participate in a team of max 4 members. Teamwork is an important component of the game creation process, encourage them to exchange and work collectively on all issues from creation of landscapes, storyboard and characters development, to the design of the game cover.

One finalist team per country will be invited to a Coding Camp held at the Microsoft Centre in Brussels in October 2014 – during the European Coding Week – where the European winner will be awarded.

The Kodu Kup Europe competition is coordinated by European Schoolnet and Microsoft.

HOW TO ENTER? 

Applications are now open to schools from Belgium, Finland, Greece, Estonia and Lithuania. 

Join the competition now and start playing with coding. Deadline for teachers to submit their entries: 15 September 2014.

Read more and submit your entries here.