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Coding Challenge 2020

The Challenge aims to reach children across the country and inspire young people to solve real-life problems in their schools and communities using physical computing. The Challenge will use the BBC micro:bit device to allow children to come up with a project to respond to Sustainable Development Goals and explore solutions on the issues they face in their everyday life.

Coding Challenge 2020 is open for all 10 to 15 year-old students from the schools who have participated in the second cycle of the 21st Century Schools programme. List of the schools eligible to participate can be found in the Annex 1 in the download section at the bottom of this page. This competition will have two rounds (online and face to face) in order to determine who are the National coding competition winners, who will have a chance to participate in the Regional coding competition.

The applications for Coding Challenge are officially closed. The Coding Challenge is organized in partnership with the Ministry of Education.

READY, SET, CODE!

„do your:bit“ competition?

Do your:bit challenge is opening on 16th September and closes on February 28, 2020. Regardless if you participate in the Coding Challenge or not, you are eligible to participate in this challenge. do your:bit challenge is led by the micro:bit Educational Foundation and supported by British Council, for more information, check Do Your Bit Challenge website.

If you are participating in the Coding Challenge and are interested in participating with the same entry in ‘do your:bit’ Global Challenge, then your entry for Coding Challenge should be in English and in line with the SDG goal 14 and SDG Goal 15.

Do your:bit is a micro:bit Challenge that challenges children and teens all over the world to get creative and invent a solution to SDG 14 Life Below Water and SDG 15 Life On Land using the micro:bit. Children with the winning ideas will be awarded a fully funded trip to London with their parent/guardian, funded by the Foundation. This challenge is open to all children age 8-14.

How to make a zip folder?

Create a folder with all the necessary documentation for competition. Right-click the folder, select (or point to) Send to, and then select Compressed(zipped) folder. A new zipped folder with the same name is created in the same location.