Exeter Pupil Wins National Coding Competition

An Exeter school pupil has won Discovery Education’s Top Coder 2023 - a popular computer programming competition for schools across the UK. The challenge invited children to unleash their creativity by designing animations, apps and games using Discovery Education Coding – the award-winning resource for primary schools.

10 year old Amelie from Starcross Primary School in Exeter, took first prize in the KS2 category of the challenge, after designing an exciting underwater fishing game. The judges were impressed by her entry, which showed “great imagination and coding skills!”

Amelie’s prize is a Botley Coding Robot , plus a year’s free subscription to Discovery Education Coding for her school.

Amelie said, “I was very excited when I heard I had won the competition! It was a lot of fun coding my game in school.”

Alex Cross, Amelie’s teacher, said, “We are so proud of Amelie as she worked very hard on her game and really followed the brief she was given. The whole school will benefit from using the Discovery coding software for the next year.”

With lots of concepts to explore, Discovery Education Coding helps children to master computer programming in a fun and accessible way, giving them the freedom to create apps and games using their imagination.

Howard Lewis, Discovery Education’s Managing Director UK and International said:

“Congratulations to Amelie, KS2 winner of this year’s Discovery Education Top Coder Competition and to everyone who took part. Coding is a vital skill for the future. It’s great to see so many students using our resources to master it and have fun with computer programming.”

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Explore Discovery Education’s award-winning digital learning services at www.discoveryeducation.co.uk.