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UK Kodu Kup final success!

Congratulations to Cardross Primary school who won the ‘judges choice award’ at this year’s UK Kodu Kup final.  Cardross is the first Scottish school to be invited to the UK final and they certainly represented Scotland well!  The pupils competed against 11 other schools from across the UK at Microsoft’s HQ in Reading.

To give a sense of the scale of their achievement, Microsoft estimates that 380,000 students have used Kodu in the UK this year.  Microsoft said “…the quality of the 160 games that were entered into the competition was outstanding and your games were voted the best by our judging panel.”

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Kodu Kup 2013

If you are interested in game design then a good place to start is with a free application called Kodu. This is a visual programming language and games lab environment which allows students from Second Level upwards to design and build three dimensional games using either a PC or an XBox and XBox controller.  When using an application such as Kodu learners can begin to learn the core concepts of computer science within the context of a project which includes narrative writing, design and maths.  Kodu was developed in the Microsoft Research Labs and is completely free to download and use.

If you are interested in submitting an entry to the Kodu Kup then full details are available here.

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