show us your project
Show Us Your Project and Win!
scratch adventure game Tell us about your project It’s a small text adventure game, in which you help a unicorn to protect the woods from an evil fairy called Gonster.
Do you have a coding or digital making project you’d like to show other Sandbox readers? Tell us about it and you could win a micro:bit Inventor’s Kit worth £37.50!
Find out more: microbit.org
This competition is open to girls aged 6-12 living in Cornwall. Please send details of just one project. We’ll contact you to let you know if your project has been chosen. For details of how to enter, go to www.tecgirls.co.uk/show-us-your-project.
Where did you get the idea for it? I’ve played text adventures before and thought I could make my own. What did you use to make it? I used a laptop and a super cool website called Scratch. How long did it take? Two hours in two separate bursts. How easy was it to make? It was quite hard since it has so many elements like music and text-to-speech. What do you like most about it? I really love the story and how I got to create my own world.
eliza, age 11
What do you think you will make next? I think I will make a battle game, perhaps with a medieval theme, because I’ve never done one.
about scratch
If you haven’t used Scratch before, it’s a super-easy and fun way to start coding – and all you need is a web browser. Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas to start. 4
Inspiration from Team Safely Fancy winning £5,000 for your tech project idea? That’s what happened to Grace, Emmy and Maddie from Penrice Academy in St Austell when they entered their ‘Safely’ project into UK Space Agency’s SatelLife competition. The girls invented a GPS wristband that helps you find your friends at festivals – and alerts someone if you’re in trouble. The UK Space Agency loved it, and awarded them a £5,000 runner-up prize. Want to have a go next year? Find out more about the UK Space Agency at gov.uk/ukspaceagency
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Doing this project made us see how creative and imaginative science can get
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Grace, age 15.
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