Little Champs: Collin Smart Tech- A national coding Championship

WINNER AT NATIONAL LEVEL, COLLINS CODING CHAMPIONSHIP IN ASSCOCIATION WITH MINDCHAMP

1st February - 14th March 2021

Cambridge International DAV Pushpanjali became the pride winner of Collins smart tech 1.0- A national coding championship for school students of classes 4 to 8 in association with Mind champ. The championship had three rounds, Round-1 is a block-based coding round, Teams had to use block based coding (MIT Scratch) platform to create a theme based game. The theme for Round -1 was Sustainable Development Goals, in which we had chosen SDG-13 " Climate Change". Out of 250 schools nationwide we were on second position with .01 point difference from being first. Round-2 was a text-based coding round. Teams were to use Text Based Coding - either HTML/CSS/JavaScript to create web page. In this we developed a website creating awareness about carbon footprint. It included introduction about carbon footprint, ways to reduce, organisations working on carbon footprint, statistics of carbon emissions till now, various initiatives taken by our students at home to reduce carbon footprint, Contact us form that included sending information in case any query, Messages of our children on their bit to reduce carbon footprint. Round-3 was a Grand Finale i.e. Viva round with the judges. Teams were asked to give presentationof the game and website created by them followed by the questions from the judges. The judgement involved quality and authenticity of the project. After Round-3 there was a virtual award ceremony hosted by Collins team for result declaration. In this ceremony, Collins announced our Cambridge International DAVPS as' First' in National Coding championship. Students received Champions trophy, Gold Medal for all team members, Certificates for all team members, Mentors certificate, Amazon Vouchers worth INR 4000 for each, Amazon Voucher worth INR 3000 for the mentor, making it INR 23000 besides discount coupon from mind champ on coding course. The students were congratulated, felicitated for their outstanding achievement by Principal of the school Ms. Rashmi Raj Biswal, Coordinator Ms. Jyotsna Kumar, Mentors Ms. Manjaree Sharma, Ms. Shubhi Garg and the Parents of the team members in a virtual meeting.