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The UK Schools Computer Animation Competition Toby Howard and Graham Gough School of Computer Science The University of Manchester www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/Animation09/. Purpose of the competition. To enthuse UK schoolchildren about Computer Science To counter “ICT is boring” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The UK Schools Computer Animation Competition
Toby Howard and Graham Gough
School of Computer ScienceThe University of Manchester
www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/Animation09/
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Purpose of the competition
• To enthuse UK schoolchildren about Computer Science
• To counter “ICT is boring”
• To introduce Computer Science concepts
• To have a long-term benefit for recruitment
• To offer teachers a new activity
• In 2008, to support the Digital 60 celebrations
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Scope of the 2009 competition
• Open to all UK schoolchildren
• Create animated film (maximum 1 minute)
• Ages groups: 7-11 (KS2), 11-14 (KS3) 14-16 (KS3) , 16+
• Film should be linked to taught curriculum
• Use Alice, Scratch or Flash
• Prizes: laptops, iPods, vouchers, certificates
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Scratch (free from MIT)
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The 2008 Competition
• Funded by EPSRC Portfolio Grant
• Partners: MOSI, IBM, Navis, Transitive
• January – May 2008
• Alice only (not Scratch or Flash)
• 420 schools registered
• 55 schools submitted 220 entries
• Prizegiving day at University
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• 33 winning entries from 20 schools
• 400 children from 30 schools attended Digital 60 Day
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The 2009 Competition
• Funded by EPSRC PE Grant
• Partners: Electronic Arts, MOSI
• January – May 2009
• 754+ schools registered
• 64+ schools submitted 243+ entries
• Prizegiving day at MOSI
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Competition management
• Web-based registration and submission
• All competition documentation on the web:
• Rules & FAQ
• Downloadable promo materials (posters, flyers)
• Links to 2008 winners’ galleries
• Teachers’ Forums (using free phpBB)
• Bespoke management system: MySQL, Perl, PHP
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Competition marketing
• Email to individual schools (“spam”!)
• Media Releases (through University Press Office)
• Publicity through partners and interested parties:
• City Learning Centres (www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/sie/eic/clc/)
• NAACE (www.naace.org)
• cs4fn (www.cs4fn.org)
• SSSAT (www.specialistschools.org.uk)
• Becta (www.becta.org.uk)
• STEM (www.dcsf.gov.uk/stem)
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Resources
• Budget: £25K
• Marketing: £9K (posters, flyers, mailings, T-shirts, professional design)
• Awards ceremony: £7K
• Prizes: £7K
• Travel: £1K
• External Judges expenses: £1K
• Note: staff time not costed!
• Estimate of staff effort: 500 person-days
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The project team
Amanda Banks
Ros Cooper
Graham Gough
Toby Howard(Chair) Chris Page
Stuart Anderson
Alexandra Walker
Bernard Strutt
Rina Srabonian