Winner of Best Coding Award - Microsoft National Minecraft Cup 2019, Japan
Congratulations to our students for achieving the Best Coding Award at the Microsoft National Minecraft Cup 2019 in Tokyo, Japan!Their winning project CodeTropolis, was selected out of more than 130 participating entries.
Students in Singapore attending one of the Minecraft Cup sessions via videoconferencing
The transnational team consisted of students from Coding Lab Japan and Coding Lab Singapore, with classes conducted by Coding Lab Japan's Director of Education, who taught Singapore students via a series of webcam sessions - harnessing the marvels of today's technology. Our students in Singapore have showcased tremendous growth —coding skills, teamwork, creativity— over the course of our transnational Preparatory Classes with so many takeaways including a broader horizon, as well as the friendships formed with their teammates from Coding Lab Japan.
Coding Lab Student representatives attending the Awards ceremony in Microsoft, Japan
Students with Coding Lab Japan Instructors and Minecraft Cup Managing Committee
What a great result for all the hard work put in by the students, tutors and everyone from the team, shining bright on the global stage!
Winner of Best Coding Award - Minecraft Cup 2019, organised by Microsoft, Japan
A snippet of the team's winning code
"You can do anything you set your mind to."
- Benjamin Franklin
About the Minecraft Cup 2019 National Tournament
Children living in the 21st century need to acquire the skills necessary to live in uncertain times, such as problem-solving skills and collaboration. In Japan, programming education has become compulsory at elementary schools since 2020. This competition aims to foster programming thinking through programming experiences, and an attitude to create better society by utilising the work of computers and software to find and solve familiar problems.The theme is "I and my town with sports facilities", which aligns with Japan hosting international sports events such as the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 the Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Games.The competition is jointly organised by the secretariat ICT CONNECT 21, Universal Awareness Center, and Microsoft Japan.