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In April 2017, Code Club Bangladesh helped to organise a pioneering national children’s coding
festival for the very first time in the country. With support from the ICT Division and the CSE
department at University of Dhaka, young students aged 7-13 from across Bangladesh were set a
fun challenge to create their own animations and games using the Scratch coding platform and
code club’s various project resources.

The students received instructions on how to upload their projects on to the Code Club
Bangladesh website and a committee of professors from the CSE Department at the University of
Dhaka helped to pick the best entries, which were judged on the student’s creativity and
understanding of coding and programming concepts such as variables, sequence, selection, and
repetition.

A final awards ceremony day was organised for 54 finalists and their families at the University
of Dhaka and 10 young winners were finally crowned NCCF 2017 Champions.

The winning students took home some great prizes and the remaining finalists also received
certificates to celebrate their achievement in reaching the final. They were encouraged to build
on their leanings and to come back stronger in NCCF 2018.

The names of our brilliant and creative winning students are listed below:

Name Name of School

Karmia Ferdousi
Sumaia Sultana Juthi
Anisa Tabassum Saima
Aurora Tahsin Tondra
Mumtahana Sondhi
Rafiuzzaman Raiyan
Kaushik Ahmed
Zulker Niem Rimon
Abdullah Alif Khan
Afia Ibnat Sreya
Nazrul Shikkhaloy
Nazrul Shikkhaloy
Nazrul Shikkhaloy
SOS Hermann Gmeiner College
Kingshuk Participatory High
School
Motijheel Colony High School
Motijheel Govt. Primary School
Motijheel Govt. Primary School
BAF Shaheen College Kurmitola
Evergreen Kindergarten School

Here are some quotes from the finals day:

“This initiative aims to help school children become more interested in computer coding through
playing games and making them,while having some fun We hope to introduce more children to
coding in the future through this pioneering program,” said Md. Harun-Ur-Rashid, the
Additional Secretary of ICTD, who was the chief guest of honour at the final awards ceremony
day.

“This initiative has allowed children to think creatively and we have received some great project
entries. I can see that the youngsters feel more comfortable in using their new skills to solve
computing problems and have been inspired to become digital creators too,” said Prof. Dr.
Shabbir Ahmed, the President of the Computer Science Department, at the University of Dhaka.

“It’s great that we have been able to inspire the future generation of digital pioneers from
Bangladesh. We are looking forward to reaching even more young students next year,” said
Shajahan Miah, Founder of Code Club Bangladesh.

Special Thanks:

Farhana Chowdhury (Code Club Bangladesh)

Mohona Mehnaz Sharmin (Code Club Bangladesh)

Mr Zunaid Ahmed Palak (Honourable State Minister for the ICT Division)

Md. Harun-Ur-Rashid (Additional Secretary of ICTD)

Dr Syed Hasan (CSE, University of Dhaka)

Prof. Dr. Shabbir Ahmed (CSE, University of Dhaka)

Professor Md. Haider Ali (CSE, University of Dhaka)

Professor Saifuddin Mohammad Tareq (CSE, University of Dhaka)

Professor Rezaul Karim (CSE, University of Dhaka)

A massive thanks to all the volunteers from the CSE Department at Dhaka University who
worked tirelessly to ensure NCCF 2017 was a great success. We would like to thank the students
for engaging with us and we also would like to thank all our supporters.