216 students submitted 92 digital games in the National Coding Competition, whose winners were announced today.

Parliamentary Secretaries Jose’ Herrera and Chris Agius said the students came from 26 schools. 

The winners were: Upper Secondary category - Luke D’Amato and Michael Pulis from Savio College who together with their teacher, Mr Charles Axisa, won the opportunity to visit the IBM Super Computer Centre and Cloud Computing Centre in Barcelona, Spain; Middle School Category - Conor Shaw, Nicholas Vassallo and Luca Trapani from St. Martin’s College who won a Lego Mindstorm kit each and in the Primary Schools category -  Giorgio Fenech, Kyle Borg and Thomas Borg Hedley from St. Augustine’s College who  each won a Big Shot DIY Camera Kit.

The National Coding Competition was aimed at students from Year 5 up to Form 5in order to demystify “code” and show that everyone is able to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator in a digital economy. The competition was organised by Mita  together with the Ministry of Education and Employment and the University of Malta

To participate, students teamed up in groups of two or three and with the help of a school teacher or mentor they created a 3D game using software like Kodu, Gamemaker Studio Standard, HTML 5 or Java Greenfoot. The training to teachers and mentors was supported by Microsoft, Holistic and St. Martin’s Institute whilst prizes were supported by SAP and IBM.

Mita’s Executive Chairman, Tony Sultana said that he was satisfied with the feedback showed by students for this competition. “I hope that after this project, you will continue to experiment with technology and to continue doing some programming which you have experienced in your free time.” He also thanked all the educators involved in the project for helping the students to complete their project.

Projects were judged on originality, creativity, fun factor and technical quality. 

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