Program your ideas now and win prizes

The 'Program Your Idea' competition, that aims to motivate pupils to take science and technology courses, is coming back with a second round after its initial success.
This year, the competition is open for both public and private school students and applications will be received until May 18.
The contest is an opportunity for students across Cycles 1, 2 and 3, to apply their innovative thinking and learning skills and evelop projects in a format of a game or an application.
The competition is part of Abu Dhabi Education Council's (Adec's) programming for life innovation initiative to transform creative ideas among all students into reality through programming.
Dr Yousif Al Sheryani, advisor to Adec's director general and acting executive director for the office of planning and strategic affairs, said: "The aim behind the competition is to create a platform to motivate students to participate in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (Steam) related fields, while tapping into each student's natural passion for creative thinking, enthusiasm for programming and technology as part of 21st century learning and teaching skills."
Khaled Al Melhi, CEO of Injazat said: More than 1,800 projects are expected from public and private schools, where up to 7,000 individuals will participate in order to further increase the enthusiasm among students. The top ten projects in each category will be shortlisted and the top three will be awarded along with seven runner-up teams. Students, teachers and school leadership will be awarded based on their winning positions."
Apart from earning trophies and medals, individuals from the top three winning teams in each of the four categories will receive high value prizes. Additionally, the runner-up teams will also be recognised.
Top projects will be evaluated based on seven criterion, namely those that are linked to Steam; quality of artwork and media; originality of the project; code structure and flow; creativity in the project; completeness of the project and presentation of the project.
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