A two-day national children-juvenile programming contest ended on Monday at district-level giving a boost to build skilled and information technology literate youths for future to help materialize the dream of Digital Bangladesh.
The district-level ‘Scratch and Python’ programming contest was held at 180 Sheikh Russell Digital Labs in 64 districts across the country, said a press release.
Some 2700 students took part in the ‘scratch’ programming contest in three-member groups while 2,700 others took part individually in python programming contest.
Winning teams from the programming contest will be invited to participate in the national campaign and the ultimate round of the contest lester.
Earlier, an intensive training event was held between May 12 and May 30 for 5400 students of 64 districts in 180 Sheikh Russell Digital Labs across the country.
A Training of Trainers (TOT) programme was also held on April 16-17 at Krishibid Institute for 360 ICT teachers and Lab Coordinators of Sheikh Russell Digital labs.
Leading youth platform ‘Young Bangla’ and Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) jointly organized the contest to motivate children in programming.
In a recent event of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) summit, Prime Minister’s ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy announced to involve ICT schooling for primary school students.
CRI Associate Coordinator Tonmoy Ahmed said for the first time they called primary level students to participate in scratch programming contest and “we are introducing a proper programming contest where participants will learn and have to do coding in contests not just a quiz test like past years”.
