The judging for Scratch National Competition has begun! With just over a month to go until the Scratch National Final, the difficult task of judging the entries is taking place right now. Thank you to everyone who submitted their project for this...

Scratch National Competition 2021 Open! The National Scratch Competition 2021 has just been launched. This national coding competition is brought to you by the ICS and supported by Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre. The Scratch Competition promotes computing...

Bebras Challenge 2020 a huge success! This year’s official Bebras Challenge is now closed and interest this year was keen. We were delighted to see the number of participants in Irish schools increasing on last years 6,882 participants in the...

Participant Feedback Form Congratulations on reaching the Scratch National Final. We hope you had fun! We’d really appreciate if you could tell us about your experience in the competition.

Scratch National Finals 2020 Congratulations to all our participants in the very first virtual Scratch National Final. The Scratch National Competition is a key initiative in the ICS outreach calendar, and this year 520 projects were entered in the competition,...

Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge 2020 Open for Registration Bebras introduces computational thinking and computer science to students from 8-18 years by allowing them to solve interactive tasks online. These tasks consist of fun and engaging short questions that can be answered...