{"id":141771,"date":"2021-01-28T07:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=141771"},"modified":"2023-09-27T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:15:14","slug":"african-code-challenge-all-female-top-3-use-tech-to-change-the-future-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/01\/african-code-challenge-all-female-top-3-use-tech-to-change-the-future-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriCAN Code Challenge, All Female TOP 3 use Tech to Change the Future of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a rigorous round of judging for this year\u2019s AfriCAN Code Challenge<\/a>, SAP Africa Code Week\u2019s top 10 winners were announced and special highlights include the top 3 being all-female, aged 10 – 16 years, with Soliyana, 10 years old from Ethiopia as the Pan-African winner of the competition.<\/h2>\n

\"\"“Despite the Covid-disruption for schools which impacted hundreds of millions of youth across Africa, children from more than 54 countries stepped-up to share their vision of the future of education,\u201d says Africa Code Week\u2019s Global Coordinator, Olajide Ademola Ajayi.<\/p>\n

Ajayi continues to say that the youth engagement throughout the challenge was incredibly inspiring, \u201cWhile there can ultimately be only one winner, the quality of entries at the inaugural AfriCAN Code Challenge encouraged hope and confidence for Africa’s future, shaped by the largest youth population in the world.”<\/p>\n

Launched by SAP Africa Code Week<\/a> and partners UNESCO<\/a>, Irish Aid<\/a>, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA<\/a>) and Jokkolabs in September 2020, the AfriCAN Code Challenge is a pan-African coding competition where youth aged 8 – 16 were tasked with coding a game using the Scratch<\/a> programming language to answer the question: “How will your tech change the future of education?”<\/p>\n

During the AfriCAN Code Challenge youth were able to enter alone or in teams of up to five people, and entries featured a two-minute YouTube clip showcasing how their game works and why it should be considered a winning entry. The unique initiative and entry mechanism called upon the children\u2019s ability to design a project that would solve a community-issue, code it, and communicate it.<\/p>\n

During the opening rounds of the challenge, participation reached across 40 countries and featured 100 project video clips, only the top three entries from 36 countries made it into the continental final, followed by 22 countries in the final judging stage.<\/p>\n

Selected by a high-level jury composed of key Africa Code Week delegates and STEM education experts, the top three of the AfriCAN Code Challenge was allocated to:<\/p>\n