SCRATCH CONTEST By Unknown16.com & STEMpedia

Table of Contents

• What is Unknown16?
• Why you should participate in the contest?
• Contest Guidelines
• Time line
• Submission of contest entry
• Evaluation criteria
• Prizes
• How to prepare?
• What if I don’t know Scratch?
• Sponsors and Partners

What is Unknown16?

Unknown16.com is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). It is focused on encouraging young girls to undertake projects that work to solve social issues by applying the knowledge learned from STEM. This is particularly targeted towards young girls under the age of 16 to ensure that a passion for STEM is brewing from a young age and from a minority gender standpoint. In today’s world where technology is becoming increasingly prominent and essential to nearly every field of study, we aim to instill a love for STEM to girls from K-12. We hope to show them how innovative and creative they can be and encourage them to develop ideas that are powerful, disruptive, and cutting-edge.

Why you should participate in the contest?

In a generation where the world is moving rapidly toward futuristic innovations in technology, it is necessary for every child to learn coding.

Participating in this contest would:

• Provide early on knowledge for students and terms of coding and help them get a head start on the future of technology
• Offers first-hand experience with coding and contest that would help build confidence for future projects
• Builds on creativity, problem solving, and collaboration that works on life skills essential to every student in the 21st century

Contest Guidelines

1. Girls only
2. Worldwide entries from the age group of 7-16
3. Team size (1-4 students)

Timeline

Submission of contest entry

Register on competition portal and then submit the following things:

Concept Note

You will be required to submit a concept note (A document in PDF format and/or Video) made by the individual/group on the competition portal. This is a document and/or video submission that should talk about the following:

• What is the problem that this project is attempting to solve or spread awareness on? (150-200 words)
• Why was this cause chosen? (100-150 words)
• Timeline of the project from course of action to competition
• Challenges faced (100-150 words)
• Any new knowledge gained? (100-150 words) (If a group, each member should answer separately)
• How was worked distributed and did the group collaborate? (If a group) (150-200 words)
• How did this contest help you for the future (100-150 words) (If a group, each member should answer separately)?

Scratch Project

You will be required to make the code/script using the PictoBlox/Scratch programming software and then upload the project file on the competition portal.

• 2-3 pictures showing kids in the group participating in the Unknown 16 contest

Photos of kids and projects needs to be uploaded on the competition portal.

Note: All file names should be in the following format:

Unknown16_ Project Name

Evaluation criteria

• Relevance and Purpose: The project created should be aimed towards solving or spreading knowledge about any of the following causes:
• Design: Should convey completeness and aesthetics that appeal to the user.
• Originality: a unique and novel idea of the project.
• Application of concepts: number of different concepts applied and their relevance to the project idea. Standard concepts include Variables, Looping, Conditional execution, Input and Output.
• Adherence to the Contest guidelines.

Prizes

Prizes will be distributed by the sponsor:

• Gift vouchers for top 3 teams (one from each category)
• STEMpedia Starter Kit (For 30 teams – Top 10 from each category)
• STEMpedia store coupons (30 % off coupons, for each team member from top 60 teams)
• Certificates (Digital Certificates to all participants)

Winner will be picked from 3 age groups:

• 7 to 10
• 11 to 13
• 14 to 16

How to prepare?

1) Pick a cause from the unknown16.com website that you are passionate about
2) Brainstorm how you want to tackle the problem with your group
3) Equally divide responsibly so the project turns out from the best of each student’s ability and skillset
4) Explore the PictoBlox/Scratch interface and look at the unknown 16 scratch curriculum for an overview of Scratch
https://thestempedia.com/docs/pictoblox/
5) Make sure you understand your idea
6) Learn more about the hardware through the STEMpedia website, if you want to use it in your project.

https://thestempedia.com/programming-platform/scratch/

What if I don’t know Scratch?

Visit the STEMpedia website to getting started with PictoBlox/Scratch.

https://thestempedia.com/tutorials/getting-started-pictoblox/

Explore the inbuilt tutorials of PictoBlox/Scratch.

Sponsors and Partners

STEMpedia, the simplest and most complete way to begin learning and prototyping, aims at revolutionizing the way world innovates. We have built a complete STEM learning solution to breed innovators in every nook and corner of our planet. STEMpedia helps you do everything in less than half the usual time, in less than half the usual investment and less than one third the usual headache.

Unknown16 is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). It is focused on encouraging young girls to undertake projects that work to solve social issues by applying the knowledge learned from STEM. This is particularly targeted towards young girls under the age of 16 to ensure that a passion for STEM is brewing from a young age and from a minority gender standpoint.