Creative Coding Challenge Ignites Passion By Mun Yee Chong, Secondary Computing Teacher, Bangkok Patana School
The Creative Coding Challenge is hosted across 12 countries, and was held in December 2017. In December 2017, over fifty students came together to explore their love of coding while taking part in the annual FOBISIA Creative Coding Challenge, an internationally recognised competition hosted in 12 countries.
Judging by the popularity and success of the event, the CAS Project Team is encouraged to organise similar events later in the year to push the capabilities of even the most experienced coders in the school.
This year, the challenges were divided into different key stages and levels - bronze, silver and gold. The event saw a wide variety of students attending all the way through key stages two through five over the course of two days after school with many teachers as well as other members of staff attending to supervise and support the students. “Contrary to common belief, coding is more than just a language used to hack. To be able to code is one of the most liberating experiences presented to a student as it gives them the opportunity to build anything they desire, to solve any problem they feel passionate about�. - Dhruv (Year 12 Student) With 50 participants attending, this event was remarkably successful in its attempt to ignite a passion for coding amongst the Bangkok Patana School student body. This success was possible thanks to the efforts of Patana Development Bank (the CAS Project Team that organised the event), their supervisor, Ms Mun Yee Chong, as well as the contribution from various other teachers in the Computer Science Department. The organising group would also like to thank all participants for their enthusiasm in collaborating with their teammates to tackle problems both intuitively and creatively. The outcome intended for the event was not just for students to display their computing skills but also to collaboratively develop new skills from each other whilst establishing team-working capabilities that will greatly help students in their development into working adults.
31 THE FOBISIAN: February 2018, Term 2, Issue 26