Christmas Coding Competition
We are so excited about this year’s Christmas competition! This competition is open to all Primary and Secondary pupils.
Prizes are only available to pupils in the UK and Ireland.
This year’s challenge: Code a Christmas themed project that includes or mention a Christmas tree.
Closing date: Midnight on the 12th of January 2025
Below are our FAQs but if you have any other questions you can contact us by emailing competitions@dresscode.org.uk
We cannot wait to see what your pupils come up with.
Have fun and happy coding!
FAQs
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Yes, the competition is free to enter.
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No. While dressCode clubs and competitions primarily focus on closing the gender gap and clubs and competitions for girls, we are also helping raise the profile of Computing Science in schools. Competitions are a great way to help get pupils engaged in coding and to help inspire them into Computing Science.
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The competition is only open to all Primary and Secondary schools. However, only those schools in the UK and Ireland are eligible for winning a prize.
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Unfortunately not. Previous competitions have had a significant number of entries and dressCode is run by three teachers, we would love to give feedback to everyone, but it’s just not possible. Rest assured that every entry will be considered and judged fairly.
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For this competition, we accept both individual and two pupils working together.
If you are submitting an entry completed in a pair, please ensure that both pupils' names are provided. This will allow us to send the correct number of prizes if their entry is successful. -
No. There must be code used to make your ideas come to life. This could be an animation, a story, a joke, a game, a card, a poster, an adventure game, a fact page, a website, an app….anything you like! It is completely up to you but it must include this years theme.
This years theme is: code a Christmas themed project that includes or mentions a Christmas tree. -
There are so many amazing free coding tools out there. This competition is open so you can use any tool. Here are some of our favourites:
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Yes! Be as creative as possible. You can find out more about the judging criteria below.
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Only entries that have a Christmas tree featured or mentioned somewhere in the entry will be accepted. We encourage you to be creative and add extra items.
The judges will be looking for creative, eye catching entries that stand out. There must be code used to make your ideas come to life. This could be an animation, a story, a joke, a game, a card, a poster, an adventure game, a fact page….anything you like! It is completely up to you.
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Make a copy of bit.ly/dressCodeChristmasComp form and add your pupils entries. Then use the submit entries button at the top of this page. Entries must be submitted by an official school email or entries will not be included in the competition.
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Not to worry. Just send the pupil’s full name and year group to competitions@dresscode.org.uk with the link to the pupils project.
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No. We are only accepting one entry per pupil. If we receive multiple entries from an individual pupil we will take the first submission as the entry from the competition.
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We have lots of cool tech gadgets to give away such as Toby Robot, Sphero minis, Makey Makey kits, Makey Makey Go, Raspberry Pi 400 and Divoom Pixel Art.
We are unable to confirm prizes or let pupils pick which prize they would like as the prizes that are sent out depend on the availability of products. -
We are a small team who all work full time as well but we will contact the teacher associated with the winning entries by the end of March.
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Yes. We understand the security concerns around pupil data. We will never share pupils data we only collect this so we can inform you if that individual pupil has won a prize, please see our privacy policy. If you feel more comfortable providing the pupils first name and then a unique identifier so that you will be able to identify between pupils with the same first name. For example, Max 1 and Max 2 would be acceptable.
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Yes. Parents or guardians can submit their young persons entry. We just need a teacher name and school name incase they win a prize and means we can get it delivered to the school.
