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Rules of Scratch International
Programming Trial


This document contains the rules for the SCRatch International Programming
Trial SCRIPT 2014.
The contest targets primary and lower secondary pupils aged 6 to 15. Pupils
organized in teams of twofour members will design a project in Scratch
programming language (version 1.4).
Scratch is a programming language developed by Lifelong Kindergarten group
from MIT Media Lab. With Scratch, pupils as young as 6 years old can learn
basic programming concepts. Scratch software can be downloaded for free from
http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/. For this edition will only be accepted projects
written in Scratch 1.4.
1 The Aim and the Objectives of SCRIPT
The aim of SCRIPT 2014 is to promote programming among primary and lower
secondary pupils using Scratch programming language.
The contest objectives are:
O1. Stimulating pupils to code.
O2. Developing English language skills of pupils and teachers.
O3. Promoting the best teams.
O4. Dissemination of the best projects.
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2 Sections and Age Categories
The contest has five sections:
Greetings
Games
Music and Dance
Stories
Simulations
For each of the five sections there are eight age categories, one for each grade
from 1 to 8
1
.
3 Who Can Participate
At SCRIPT contest can participate 6 to 15 years old pupils from schools or after
school clubs. The pupils cannot participate individually: they have to be
organized in teams of two, three, or four members. The members of a team have
to be from the same organization (school or club) and to fit the age categoryit is
not allowed for a pupil to participate in a lower or a higher age category.
Each team must have a coordinator that is teacher in the same organization as
the pupils.
A pupil can be member of many teams as long as the teams participate in
different sections. That means that a pupil cannot be member of two teams that
participate in the same section.
4 Stages of Competition
4.1 Schools Registration
An organization can participate in the contest if it is registered in competition by
a teacher in that institution using an online form specified by organizers.
The school must register before the deadline specified in section 4.6.
An organization can participate with at most two projects for each section and
age category.
A teacher can coordinate at most one project for each section and age category
(i.e. maximum eight projects for each of the five sections).
4.2 Projects Design and Teams Guidance
Coordinator teacher coaches the pupils in developing the project, but this has to
be the result of the teams members.

1
According to Romanian educational system, a pupil in 1
st
grade is 67 years old. This means that the
maximum age of a participant is 15 years old, corresponding to 8
th
grade.
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The projects must be original and must be made by the teams who send the
projects.
The projects authors must own copyright for music, sounds, text and images
used in the project.
4.3 Projects Submission
The projects will be sent at the contests email address, scriptrial@gmail.com,
before deadline specified in section 4.6.
Each submitted project will be assigned to one of the five competition sections by
its designers.
SCRIPT organizers may disqualify any project whose content is considered
inappropriate or breaks the rules of the contest.
4.4 Projects Evaluation
The projects will be evaluated by a jury of programming teachers and university
students. The ranking of projects will be according with the grade done by the
jury.
Projects evaluation criteria:
Originality
Creativity
Using Scratch characteristics
Project global quality
For each section and age category 1
st
, 2
nd
, and 3
rd
prizes and Honourable
Mentions will be granted. The number of prizes will not exceed 25% of the
number of projects in that section and age category if this is possible without
breaking the previous rule (that is, if enough participants are enrolled for that
section and age category). Special awards may be granted.
4.5 Projects Dissemination
For each project participating in the contest, the authors of the project give the
organizers the right to use the project for educational or advertising purposes.
The organizers have to specify the projects authors and their organization.
The awarded projects will be posted in SCRIPT 2014 studio on the website
http://scratch.mit.edu/.
4.6 Schedule
The milestones of the competition are:
15 February 2014 Launching the competition
15 April 2014 Registering the organizations
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15 May 2014 Submitting the projects by email
1 June 2014 Announcing results
30 June 2014 Sending diplomas by snail mail
15 June 2014 Creating a gallery with awarded projects
5 Final Decisions
The jury decision is final and cannot be contested.
The rules can be improved based on the proposals from competition participants.
The proposals will be submitted at the address scriptrial@gmail.com.
The changes of the present regulation will be transmitted timely to all interested
people.





SCRIPT 2014 Coordinator,
Mihai Agape