Game of Codes 2025

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Game of Codes is 10 years old!

Game of Codes is back and celebrating its 10th Birthday with the Technocamps pan-Wales National Game of Codes Programming Competition. The competition will enable interested pupils to develop their problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills while improving their knowledge of computer programming in a fun and inventive way.

Superheroes of Science

The challenge is to create a piece of software using “Superheroes of Science”. You can focus on any aspect of science. Maybe your focus could be the science of superheroes or how to encourage people to get more involved with science. Your software must have an original design which could be in the form of a game, website, app, quiz, or animation. Any coding language can be used to create the software e.g. Scratch, Python, Java, Visual Basic, App Inventor or HTML etc. and you can also make use of the Raspberry Pi or BBC micro:bits that you may have in your school. We are accepting both team entries and individual entries. All entries must provide a teacher (or club leader/parent) contact and have the support of their school, before entering. There is no limit to the number of teams/individuals a school can enter into the competition.

Key Information

Team entries are made up as a Poster presentation and cover the following:

Name of the project
Aim of the project - Who the project is for?
Who is in your team?
How did you create the software (e.g., what language did you use)?
Include evidence of your software e.g., screenshots, software file or photographs of the final product.Design of the project (What did it look like before you started coding? Did you have any characters? How did you decide what the project was going to achieve?)
Reflection (How did you make decisions as a team?Discuss the team responsibility of each member of your team. What steps did you take to make the software? Did you make any changes, if so, what changes did you make? What did you learn when creating the final project?)

Make your software look fun and be creative!

Examples and poster templates can be found here.

Individual entries are made up as a Poster presentation and cover the following:

Name of the project.
Aim of the project - Who the project is for?
How did you create the software (e.g., what language did you use)?
Include evidence of your software e.g., screenshots, software file or photographs of the final product.
Design of the project (What did it look like before you started coding? Did you have any characters? How did you decide what the project was going to achieve?)
Reflection (How did you make decisions? What steps did you take to make the software? Did you make any changes, if so, what changes did you make? What did you learn when creating the final project?)

Remember when creating your software, it is essential to consider the following:

Is your software innovative? Will people want to use it? Can you access similar software on the market? What makes your software different? Why would someone want to use your software?
Who is your software aimed at and how will you target them? For example, if your software game is targeted to teenage girls, how will you ensure they want to use the software?

Make your software look fun and be creative!

Examples and poster templates can be found here.

Submit entries no later than 5pm on Friday 14th February 2025 by completing the online form and emailing cardiff@technocamps.com a copy of the poster – either photo or upload with the project name as the subject line.

Shortlisted entries will be notified on Wednesday 19th February 2025 and invited to attend the Game of Codes Finals Day hosted by Cardiff University School of Computer Science at their Abacws building on Wednesday 12th March 2025, where finalists will be given the opportunity to showcase their entry to academics and special guest judges. The best entries will receive prizes, and every team will receive a Certificate of Attendance and goodie bag.

Entry Form Link

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