Google India Code to Learn Contest 2017

Participate in the Google India Code to Learn contest 2017

·         Parents, Legal Guardians or School Teachers of students in classes 5 to 10 can register.

·         Students create a project using Scratch or App Inventor - fun and cool tools created by MIT.

·         Projects can be submitted up to 31-August-2017.

·         Win cool prizes.

Judging and Prizes

Class groups

The contest is open to all students in classes 5 to 10 enrolled at any school in India. The students will compete in three class groups:

·         Classes 5 & 6

·         Classes 7 & 8

·         Classes 9 & 10

Note: Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders, as well as their immediate families, of Google, its affiliates, and any representatives or agencies of Google or other persons professionally connected with the contest are not eligible to participate.

Judging process

·         A panel of judges will select 10 finalists from each class group.

·         All the 10 finalists from each class group will go through a second round of judging to select 3 winners.

·         The finalists and winners will be announced on this website.

·         The winners will be in no particular order. All of them will receive the same prize and  certificate.

Prizes

·         The 9 winners (3 from each class group) will get a certificate of achievement and a Nexus tablet or Chromebook laptop or an equivalent gift.

·         All the finalists will get a certificate of achievement.

Judging criteria

·         Originality - a unique and novel idea of the project.

·         Application of Computer Science concepts - number of different concepts applied and their relevance to the project idea. Standard concepts include Variables, Looping, Conditional execution, Input and Output.

·         Complexity of the project - as measured using standard techniques for analysis of algorithms.

·         Adherence to the Contest Requirements and Rules.

Important Dates:

·         Registration Opens: 8 May, 2017

·         Project Submission Opens: 1 July 2017

·         Project Submission Deadline: 31 August 2017

·         Announcement of Finalists: On or after 30 September 2017

·         Announcements of Winners: On or after 15 October 2017

If you have any queries write to us on: code2learn [at] google [dot] com 

Click below link for more details

https://codetolearn.withgoogle.com/