Summer of Code Competition

Written By Toni Scullion

Our annual Summer of Code competition is now live! This competition is open to all Primary and Secondary pupils.
Prizes are only available to pupils in the UK and Ireland.

The challenge: Create your own coding projects that is important to you and you enjoy. This could be something fun, educational or to raise awareness on a particular topic. Be as creative as possible. Entries could be anything from a animation, story, game, website, app to a machine learning program.

Closing date: Midnight on the 31st of August 2024

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 enjoy your Summer!

FAQs

  • Yes. Teachers name and school email must be provided as they are our point of contact for any pupils that win a prize for their entry.

  • Yes, the competition is free to enter.

  • 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.

  • The competition is only open to all Primary and Secondary schools worldwide. However, only those schools in the UK and Ireland are eligible for winning a prize.

  • 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.

  • Yes you can submit a team project. Teams of 4 people maximum. You can also enter individually as well.

  • 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:

  • Create your own coding projects that is important to you and you enjoy. This could be something fun, educational or to raise awareness on a particular topic. Be as creative as possible. Entries could be anything from a animation, story, game, website, app to a machine learning program.

  • 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. It is completely up to you.

  • Yes. You can either select the “Make a copy of entry for
    to submit multiple entries” form and add your pupils entries. Entries must be submitted by an official school email or entries will not be included in the competition.

  • Not to worry. Just send the pupil’s full name(s), year group and school name to competitions@dresscode.org.uk with the link to the pupils project.

  • 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.

  • We have lots of cool tech gadgets to give away such as Sphero minis, Makey Makey kits, Raspberry Pi 400 and Divoom Pixel Art. We are unable to 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 October.

  • 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.

Toni Scullion