Luke D’Amato and Michael Pulis from Savio College won the upper secondary category of the national coding competition. Their prize is a visit to the IBM Super Computer Centre and Cloud Computing Centre in Barcelona, Spain.

Conor Shaw, Nicholas Vassallo and Luca Trapani from St Martin’s College were the middle school category winners and each awarded a Lego Mindstorm kit.

Giorgio Fenech, Kyle Borg and Thomas Borg Hedley from St Augustine’s College won the primary school category and each received a Big Shot DIY camera kit.

A total of 216 students from 26 schools submitted 92 digital games in the competition, which was open to male and female students from Year 5 to Form 5. To participate in the competition, teams comprising two or three students, assisted by a school teacher or mentor, had to create a 3D game using software such as Kodu, Gamemaker Studio Standard, HTML 5 or Java Greenfoot.

The games were judged on their originality, creativity, fun factor and technical quality.

The competition’s aim was to demystify ‘code’ and show that everyone can be a maker, a creator and an innovator in a digital economy. It was organised by the Malta Information Technology Agency (Mita), the Ministry of Education and the University of Malta.

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