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Telling stories with

Shaun the Sheep

Code Club is running an exclusive Shaun the Sheep

competition in collaboration with Aardman Animations

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Code Club is a worldwide network of free

teacher- and volunteer-led coding clubs for young

people, and it’s part of the Raspberry Pi family.

The Code Club team is currently collaborating

with Aardman Animations, the studio behind

the Shaun the Sheep series/movies, to bring

an exclusive coding competition to more than

13,000 clubs around the world. To mark the

release of $ 6KDXntKe6KeeS0oYLe)DUmDJeddon,

&ode &lub members are getting the chance to

use Scratch to tell a story about Shaun and his

new friend Lu-La, and to maybe win a prize for

their digital creation. To enter, young learners

create a Scratch animation based on a ready-

made project guide provided by Code Club and

images provided by Aardman Animations.

From beginner to advanced

The competition is accessible to all learners,

regardless of their coding knowledge, and entries

will be judged on their creativity and storytelling

as well as the quality of their code. Code Club’s

Shaun the Sheep: Mission to Space project guide

teaches learners to create

an animation by using

repetition to move

sprites around the

screen. It’s a suitable

project for beginners,

and more advanced

learners can easily

expand on it to challenge

themselves. In addition, entrants will be judged

in one of two age categories: 11 and under,

or 12 and above. This way, judges can fairly

compare entries of learners with similar literacy

and numeracy skills. To help learners who aren’t

fluent in (nglish to participate, the proMect guide

is available in eight languages.

The competition’s open exclusively to

registered Code Clubs across the world.

If you’re interested in starting a &ode &lub

in your community, register to get involved.

9isit codeclub.org if you’re based in the UK, USA

or Republic of Ireland, or to codeclubworld.org

to start a club in the rest of the world.

teaches learners to create

expand on it to challenge