Google Call to Code winners announced

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Pictured: Google Call to Code finalists Cathal Weakliam and Seán Mahon

2 May 2014

The winners of Google’s inaugural Call to Code competition for post primary students have been announced.

The overall winner of the junior cycle group was Adam Power (15) from St. Aidan’s Christian Brother School, Dublin and the winner of the senior cycle group was Aron Hoffman (17) from  Luttrellstown Community College. They both received *MaKey MaKey units and a brand Chromebook Pixel laptop.

Over 2,500 students registered to represent their school and 50% of participation came from outside of Dublin showing a growing interest among students in computer science.

Two teachers were commended for having the most students registered in each contest group: Junior Cycle winner, Anne Gilleran, from Scoil Mhuire in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon and Senior Cycle winner Jackie Cooper of  Árdscoil na Tríonóide in Athy, Co Kildare each received a Chromebook pixel as well as a Chromebook computer lab for their school.

The final ‘live’ round of the competition was held at Google’s EMEA Headquarters with prizes awarded to two teachers for their role promoting computer science among their students and to six students who successfully completed coding challenges. In total, 20 junior cycle and 20 senior cycle students took part in the live final and battled it out to develop code and solve programming puzzles.

Head of Google’s education committee Fionnuala Meehan said: “With many companies choosing to locate their EU headquarters in Dublin, Ireland’s reputation as the digital headquarters of Europe continues to grow; this presents great job opportunities for students of computer science. It is important that we do everything we can to foster the next generation of digital entrepreneurs and Call to Code is designed to help students have a deeper understanding of Computer Science.”

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