This year, the CS First Graduation Day will be held on December 10/13, 2020. This is an on-line event that aims to promote the participation of the entire CS First community and present awards to the best projects developed on the platform.
The objective is to develop new didactic activities with Google CS First that can be used at school, even with distance learning and in emergency periods such as the one we are experiencing due to Covid-19.
The theme of the third edition is the concept of “diversity” in all its dimensions, but with a specific focus on disability and special needs. In fact, the platform allows the teaching of core subjects in a manner that is respectful of everyone’s needs. It can be custom-tailored with different learning methods and schedules and make learning more efficient and fun, driving inclusion. Moreover, visual representation makes it easier to concentrate and solve more or less complex problems, while collaborative work (even at a distance) promotes integration and the participation of all students, even the more fragile ones.
For this reason, this year the projects that aim to promote diversity in the following categories will be incentivized:
- Best storytelling project
- Best animation project
- Best coding project for an interactive videogame
The projects may be interdisciplinary or address a single subject. They can also be a remix of another project.
Candidatures may be the result of individual work, but we encourage collaborative proejcts (in teams of two or more).
Evaluation Criteria
- Quality of programming: the project code must work well.
- Didactic quality: the project must satisfy specific educational objectives (i.e., explain a scientific concept, teach students an activity, describe a story, promote ethic and sustainable approaches, etc.).
Share your projects with us at corsi@mondodigitale.org. Make sure to indicate "candidatura CS First 2020" in the subject line.
To participate, please submit by November 20:
- Project description (5 lines) – basic idea and relation to primary or first-degree secondary school curriculum;
- Link to programme, published on Scratch from your CS First account.
The final awards ceremony will be held between December 10 and 13 at the Graduation Day event during the presentation of the finalist projects. The best three projects will receive a Google CS First 2020 Award. Further information will be provided as soon as possible.
All submitted projects will be inserted in the CS First Italy curriculum mapping that will be published on the platform at the end of the project.
For further information: corsi@mondodigitale.org
