A Student from Abbey Community College, Waterford took home one of the top prizes at this year’s Scratch Finals.
Vita Marohnic received the award for Best Educational Content for her project Welcome to my home: Beautiful Croatia.
This year saw over 160 entries nationwide to the competition.
Scratch is a visual programming language that makes it easy for young people to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art – and share their creations on the web.
Using Scratch allows students to develop creative and critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills as they work collaboratively or individually on Scratch projects.
According to Clare McInerney, Lero’s EPE Programme Manager, “The standard for this year’s competition has been incredibly high, it was a very difficult task for our judges this year. I want to say a huge congratulations to everyone that took part in this year’s competition, The Scratch programme provides young students with real, hands-on coding experience and highlights how important it is our everyday lives.”
Now in its twelfth year, the National Scratch Competition is run by the Irish Computer Society, the representative body for IT professionals in Ireland and Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software.
Awards were provided by AWS In Communities, a programme of Amazon Web Services.
Frank Mockler, General Manager, Irish Computer Society said, “Events like the national Scratch competition allow Ireland’s upcoming cohort of digital creators to demonstrate their critical thinking, their creativity, and their innovation. We need to make sure that young people see the value and potential of technology and learn to own and control it.”
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