Since last two years, Google India has been endeavouring to promote fun and interesting ways to learn computer programming. Two of the tools that make it possible are Scratch and App Inventor - both developed at MIT. These tools make programming very easy and students are able to tell stories, make animations, build games and create Android apps in a quick and intuitive manner.
To promote experimentation, innovation and learning via these tools, we are happy to announce the Google India Code to Learn Contest 2015. We invite school students in classes 5 to 10 enrolled at any school in India to develop their projects in Scratch or App Inventor and submit them for the contest. There are cool prizes to be won.
Visit the contest website to register for the contest, see tutorials on Scratch and App Inventor, download posters and invite your friends to the contest. Note that due to age restrictions, only parents or legal guardians can register for the contest on behalf of the students.
For this year’s Code to Learn we are partnering with two special organizations: ACM India - the Indian arm of the international society for Computing and IIIT Delhi - a research-oriented university based in Delhi. ACM is the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society and it gives the A. M. Turing Award - generally recognized as the world’s highest honour in Computer Science and the Nobel Prize of Computing. IIIT Delhi was established in 2008 and is growing fast into a significant research-oriented university in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication and related areas.
We look forward to seeing some amazing projects from students all over India in Code to Learn 2015 !!
Posted by Ashwani Sharma, Country Head, University Relations
