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UK schoolchildren have outsmarted their European rivals at a coding competition in Brussels.
Technology enthusiasts Alfi e Finch- Critchley (14), Joseph Banerjee (12) and Jonathan Haley (12) from Uppingham have been crowned Masters of the inaugural European Kodu Kup in Brussels. The team, from Uppingham
Community College and known as Madd Hat Games, wowed the judges with their creation Confi ned, a futuristic game in the style of Portal, in which the player has to complete various tests to progress through the game to defeat an evil robot at the end. Madd Hat Games won the award for the 12–16-year-old age category. Alfi e Finch-Critchley said: “Kids
don’t always need to be told what to do to understand things, through computational thinking and perseverance you can fi nd out for yourself, and if you can get a grasp of computers and computer science you can understand the world around us. Apart from the event itself, the best part of participating in the Kodu Kup for me was the teamwork. We worked together and we were able to take our individual talents and combine them to get the best result possible.”
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The Kodu Kup challenges children
to create their own games using Kodu, Microsoft’s specially designed simple, visual programming language. The eight winning teams from this
year’s national Kodu Kups (from Portugal,
Finland, Norway, the UK, Belgium, Greece, Estonia and Lithuania) met at the Microsoft Innovation Centre for a specialised two-day European Coding Camp before going head-to-head in the Dragon’s Den-style Kodu Kup fi nal.
Carol Vorderman videos bring back The Maths Factor The programme, which uses a series of
video tutorials powered by Brightcove’s Video Cloud online video platform, aims to improve maths skills for Key Stage 2 students following the launch of the new national curriculum for maths this year. Aimed at 4–11-year-olds in the UK, the
Maths Factor’s ‘Maths Made Easy’ website uses a series of video tutorials, games and ‘top tips’ to help children improve and develop their maths skills. “Technology has changed so much
Pearson is working with education publisher Brightcove to re-launch The Maths Factor, a website that enables primary school-aged pupils to be tutored by maths guru, Carol Vorderman.
ABOVE: Carol Vorderman is combining maths and technology with The Maths Factor
since I was in school, and with that comes some great opportunities to simplify and transform the teaching of maths, in such a way that can get children even more excited about learning,” said Carol Vorderman. “The website is available 24 hours a day
and seven days a week, so children can have maths support when and where they need it.”
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