Immerse yourself into this dangerous zombie world to save people!
Students who are starting coding for the first time can also participate.
3 Steps to Participate
Coding Challenge
Purpose
The 2024 UNSW Coding Challenge is an initiative supported by the government. It offers online coding courses to students in Australia, with a focus on girls and students in remote areas. Our program teaches STEM, Robotics, Coding, and Construction Engineering to prepare students for future careers and societal needs.
Host and Sponsor
Host: UNSW Built Environment
Support:
- Women in Construction Project at UNSW Built Environment (the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Office for Women, under the Federal Government’s Women’s Leadership and Development Program)
- MRT Robotics(robotclass.com.au e-learning system and Robot set)
Challenge Period
From Summer Holiday 2023 to Term 1 2024
Code submission date
12 Apr 2024
Award ceremony
24 Apr 2024 @ UNSW Tyree Energy Technology
We will conduct the offline award ceremony and Zoom simultaneously.
Theme
Save the world from the dangerous zombies!
Description
Zombies are spreading rapidly in the world. To respond to this, we need to gather more materials and build safe constructions. Additionally, we must create more effective weapons to rescue people from zombies. By doing so, we can effectively defend against zombie attacks and continue our efforts for the survival of humanity…
Sample presentation video from last year
Essential Elements of Making a Game Project
- Material collection: The more interesting the enemies or obstacles you create, the higher your score.
- Code to build various buildings and elements(weapons) when enough materials are collected.
- Create an engaging story to make the game fun to play.
Evaluation Criteria
Code: Reduce unnecessary code and modularize repetitive code. Utilize variables, loops, and conditional statements effectively in your coding.
Story: A good game must have a compelling story. Design the game's difficulty level to be neither too difficult nor too easy.
Design: You can choose to be creative and create your own designs or use other design tools. Ensure that you optimize file sizes to minimize storage usage.
Presentation: Create a YouTube video that showcases your well-designed game and logically explains how you coded it.
AI (Artificial Intelligence, Entry Only): If you create a game using the provided machine learning model in Entry AI Blocks, you will receive bonus points.
How to Participate
Coding Challenge
01. Select the course
02. Learn and make your own coding game
After studying diligently in online courses, You can create your own game based on what you have learned.
03. How do I submit to the coding challenge?
After completing the game development, please send the game source code and game description video to the email roboticscodingchallenge@gmail.com.
Two ways to send the game source code:
- Download the game source code to your computer and create a compressed file to send via email.
- If you are using Scratch or Entry, there is a sharing feature. Just send the sharing link via email.
How to send email:
Email Subject: Name-Grade-Coding Tool (e.g. John James-Y4-Scratch)
Email Content:
- Game Code: Compressed file or shared code link
- Presentation YouTube video link or shared video Google Drive link
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Resource Images
Variety of weapons
Short gun
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Laser UZI
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Power SPAZ
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Triple Thrower
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