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Rules of Scratch International

Programming Trial

This document contains the rules for the SCRatch I nternational Programming

Trial SCRIPT 2014.

The contest targets primary and lower secondary pupils aged 6 to 15. Pupils

organized in teams of two four members will design a project in Scratch

programming language (version 1.4) .

Scratch is a programming language developed by Lifelong Kindergarten group

from MIT Media Lab. With Scratch, pupils as you ng as 6 years old can learn

basic programming concepts. Scratch software can be downloaded for free from

http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/ . For this edition will only be accepted projects

written in Scratch 1.4.

1 The Aim and the Objectives of SCRIPT

The aim of SCRIPT 2014 is to promote programming among primary and lower

secondary pupils using Scratch programming language.

The contest objectives are:

O1. Stimulating pupils to code.

O2. Developing English language skills of pupils and teachers.

O3. Promoting the best teams.

O4. Dissemination of the best projects.
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2 Sections and Age Categories

The contest has five sections:

Greetings

Games

Music and Dance

Stories

Simu lations

For each of the five sections there are eight age categories, one for each grade

from 1 to 81.

3 Who Can Participate

At SCRIPT contest can participate 6 to 15 years old pupils from schools or after

school clubs. The pupils cannot participate individually: they have to be

organized in teams of two, three , or four members. The members of a team have

to be from the same organization (school or club) and to fit the age category it is

not allowed for a pupil to participate in a lower or a higher age category .

Each team must have a coordinator that is teacher in the same organization as

the pupils.

A pupil can be member of many teams as long as the teams participate in

different sections. That means that a pupil cannot be member of two teams that

participate in the same section.

4 Stages of Competition

4.1 Schools Registration

An organization can participate in the contest if it is registered in competition by

a teacher in that institution using an online form specified by organizers .

The school must register before the deadline specified in section 4.6.

An organization can participate with at most two projects for each section and

age category.

A teacher can coordinate at most one project for each section and age category

(i.e. maximum eight projects for each of the five sections).

4.2 Projects Design and Teams

Coordinator teacher coaches the pupils in developing the project, but this has to

1 According to Romanian educational system, a pupil in 1st grade is 67 years old. This means that the

maximum age of a participant is 15 years old, corresponding to 8th grade.


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The projects must be original and must be made by the teams who send the

project s.

must own copyright for music, sound s, text and images

used in the project.

4.3 Projects Submission

The projects will be sent at the [email protected] ,

before deadline specified in section 4.6.

Each submitted project will be assigned to one of the five competition sections by

its designers.

SCRIPT organizers may disqualify any project whose content is c onsidered

inappropriate or breaks the rules of the contest.

4.4 Projects Evaluation

The projects will be evaluated by a jury of programming teachers and university

students. The ranking of projects will be according with the grade done by the

jury.

Projects evaluation criteria:

Originality

Creativity

Using Scratch characteristics

Project global quality

For each section and age cat egory 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes and Honourable

Mentions will be granted. The number of prizes will not exceed 25% of the

number of projects in that section and age category if this is possible without

breaking the previous rule (that is, if enough participa nts are enrolled for that

section and age category). Special awards may be granted.

4.5 Projects Dissemination

For each project participating in the contest, the authors of the project give the

organizers the right to use the project for educational or adverti sing purposes.

The organizers have to specify the projects authors and their organization.

The awarded projects will be posted in SCRIPT 2014 studio on the website

http://scratch.mit.edu/ .

4.6 Schedule

The milestones of the competition are:

15 February 2014 Launching the competition

15 April 2014 Registering the organization s
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15 May 2014 Submitting the projects by email

1 June 2014 Announcing results

30 June 2014 Sending diplomas by snail mail

15 June 2014 Creating a gallery with awarded projects

5 Final Decisions

The jury decision is final and cannot be contested.

The rules can be improved based on the proposals from competition participants.

The proposals will be submitted at the address [email protected] .

The changes of the present re gulation will be transmitted timely to all interested

people.

SCRIPT 2014 Coordinator ,

Mihai Agape
mailto:[email protected]

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