Computer Science for High School Concluded in Style

                                                 Group Photo
The CS4HS workshop was a concluded with Joy as Maryhill High School emerged as a winner for the Scratch Programming Competition followed by Eden International School and St. Joseph's Vocational school as 1st and 2nd Runners up respectively.

                                                           Winners receive their award

Every participant was awarded a certificate and a very nice t-shirt to help spread the word of Improving Computer Science in High Schools. The presence of the Director, Institute of Computer Science (ICS) blessed the occasion as her encouraging words left students motivated to Join ICS.

All schools were able to write scripts that helped them present very brilliant ideas for the competition. It is very evident in some of the projects that you can actually play games to help you relax your mind, as mentioned by the students. Click on one of the projects bellow to see some of the amazing projects

1. Witch Killer Game, use the mouse to kill as many witches as possible. 
2. Basket Ball Game, If you are a lover of basket ball, don't miss playing this game. After clicking start, use the space bar and arrows. 
3. Tourism in Uganda
4. Scratch Challange Register

Some of the students were so excited and promised to continue developing there programming skills and also help their fellow students at school through clubs. Teachers also promised to organize similar workshops and programming competitions as a way of appreciating MUST, Google CS4HS and Scratch. Others stressed that the students will continue improving the projects they had developed. 

Uploading the Scratch projects to Mobile phones was a concern by students as they wished to share their projects with a much bigger audience.

                                        One of the Scratch lesson

When i tried to do a follow-up after the workshop, It was all good news as the hot topic both for students and staff at schools was scratch and computer programming.

The Scratch team of Mbarara University of Science technology that includes Kimera Richard, Mugonza Robert, John Ziine, Mwavu Rogers and Kwoshaba Linda will now be heading to Western Uganda where a similar program is going to run. The event will take place at Mountains of the Moon University, School of Informatics and Computing.