Two Galway schools are celebrating success in the National Scratch Coding Competition.
Students from St Annin's National School, Rosscahill, and Kilglass NS, Ahascragh, took home two of the top prizes at this year’s Scratch finals.
Freya Tollett and Eloise Devine from St Annin's received the award for Best Social Project for their project ‘Food Chain Game’, while Adam Carroll of Kilglass received a Judge's Award for his project ‘Scratch Calculator’.
This year attracted 160 entries nationwide to the competition. Now in its twelfth year, the National Scratch Competition has established itself among both teachers and students as a leading platform and showcase for Ireland’s aspiring digital creators. The competition is run by the Irish Computer Society, the representative body for IT professionals in Ireland and Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software. Awards were provided by AWS In Communities, a programme of Amazon Web Services.
