High honours for Sunford Primary in coding tournament
The global sponsor for this tournament is AWS in Communities, which was also the anchor sponsor for the event on Mandela Day this year.
Sunford Primary School recently won the national coding tournament, qualifying for the world championship this year.
Back in July, 16, 000 pupils participated in around 60 sites across South Africa in Tangible Africa’s #Coding4Mandela tournament.
They used either the Rangers or the Tanks coding apps. Last week, the winners of the different sites participated in a national virtual competition to choose six teams who will represent SA on December 5 in the virtual #Coding4Mandela World Championships, also marking the 10th death anniversary of Nelson Mandela.
The six-team squad, representing South Africa, during the Mandela World champs are Belhar Library, Ocean View, Library Parsons Hill Primary, Shalom Akademie, Sunford Primary School and Valhalla Park Library.
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School principal, Ms M Naidu, said, “So far, we know of teams from SA, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Germany and the USA who are definitely participating. The Rangers coding game is currently played in 15 European countries during EU Code Week this month, and we trust that more teams from some of these countries will also join. On the day, teams will participate using a virtual tournament application- they will thus be distributed across three continents.”
The global sponsor for this tournament is AWS in Communities, which was also the anchor sponsor for the event on Mandela Day this year.
Naidu, her staff, the SGB and other stakeholders, wish the Sunford Primary coding team all the best in the upcoming tournament.
