Wyndham Coding Champs

There are two entry categories for Wyndham Coding Champs

Ages 7-11:

• Scratch game
• Scratch animation

Ages 12-15

• Scratch game
• Scratch animation

The competition is open to kids who:

1. Are aged 7 to 15 years (on 1 October 2018)
2. Are a current member of Wyndham City Libraries, or have a parent or legal guardian who is a member of Wyndham City Libraries
3. Have their parents/legal guardian’s permission to enter the competition.

• The Wyndham Coding Champs competition (the competition) is a digital video game and animation design competition for children and young people who are members (or who have a parent or legal  guardian who is a member) of Wyndham City Libraries (the Library).
• Participants may submit only one entry per category that they’re eligible for.
• Entries must be submitted via the Wyndham Coding Champs entry form on the Library website.
• Entries must be created in Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/), and shared to be publicly accessible on the Scratch website.
• Everything you create and submit to Scratch is licensed to and through Scratch under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
• Entries must only have been shared on the Scratch website at time of entry.
• Entries must be the creator’s original work, or a remix of another Scratch work. If the entry is a remix, it must be done with the Scratch remix tool, with remixes shown on the remix tree.
• Entries must consist of original media (backdrops, sprites, sounds) created by the entrant, or built-in media from the Scratch platform.
• Content of all entries must be ‘G’ rated.
• The result of the competition is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Staff employed by Wyndham City Libraries, and their immediate family members, are not eligible to enter.
• Entries which meet these requirements will be added to the Wyndham Coding Champs Studio on Scratch, and shared publicly as a competition entry.
• Any entries not made in strict accordance with these guidelines will not be considered, and will not be shared on the competition’s Studio.
• If these entry guidelines are not followed, or if the entrant engages in misconduct in relation to the competition, as decided by the Library, the Library may disqualify any entries, and prohibit the entrant from participating further in the competition.
• Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu.

All competition entries will be reviewed by this process:

Step 1: Does the entry meet the entry guidelines? If it does it will progress to step 2. If it doesn’t, it will not progress. The entrant will not be notified if the entry does not progress to step 2.

Step 2: The entry will be shared on the Wyndham Coding Champs Studio (https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/5230786/). Judges will review and score the entry based on:

• Coding
• Game playability (game categories only)
• Graphics
• Originality
• Sound
• Story and instructions

Scores will not be made public.

Step 3: A winner in each category will be decided based on judging scores. If a tie occurs and there is no clear winner, judges will meet to decide on a winner from tied entries.

Step 4: Winners will be announced at the Wyndham Coding Champs event during International Games Week. Winners will also be published on the Libraries in Wyndham Facebook page, and shared on the Library website.

Personal information collected for the competition will be stored by Wyndham City Council and used only for the purposes of the Wyndham Coding Champs competition and awards. Entries that are accepted to the competition will be shared on the Wyndham Coding Champs Studio on Scratch, and may be shared in the Library, on the Library’s social media and website, and in future promotion and professional development. Only information that the entrant shares publicly on Scratch will be shared. Information submitted via the competition entry form will not be disclosed to a third party.