BCS 2023 Competitions
This year there are 5 BCS 2023 competitions, organised by the BCSGreenIt, e-learning, Animation and Games Development and BCS Cybercrime Forensics SGs.
All student entries, at all levels, including part-time students, must be entered by a member of staff at that educational establishment.
BCS 2023 Competitions
Each year there are different themes for each of these competitions. Expand to view themes:
Theme: ‘Where might the next generation of Digital forensic artefacts come from?”
Submission: Friday 31 March 2023 (World Backup Day 2023 ).
Higher Education (HE) only – Under-grad and Post-grad; part or full time, and Open classes. See more details here.
Theme: “How Computing can address the Energy Crisis”.
Submission: Saturday 22 April 2023 (International Earth Day), Primary to Post-grad (p2p) and Open classes. More details here.
Length: 1 minute
Submission: Friday 28 April 2023, HE and FE only classes. More details here.
A computer game or the idea for one on a single power point slide).
Theme: “Creating Fun Meals with a Sustainable Twist”.
Submission: Friday 19 May 2023, HE and FE only classes only and Open classes. More details here.
Idea for one on a single power point slide competition.
Theme: “How e-learning and the Internet can encourage reuse”.
Submission: Friday 30 June 2023, Primary to Post-grad (p2p) and Open classes. More details here:
The winning entry a few years ago for the idea for a computer game was a single PowerPoint titled “The Last Mermaid” showing a picture of a mermaid sitting on a rock with rubbish in the sea around her – so the picture immediately gave a clue to the subject, as did the title “The Last Mermaid”.
There were 5 bullet points that explained the idea, which were:
- a simple computer game for all ages from the young to the old
- to compare how long different items remained in the sea (say comparing an apple core to a baby’s nappy)
- a more different difficult level of the game “The Last Mermaid” was to identify how different materials could harm different types of wildlife in the sea, from eating plastic to getting trapped in plastic containers
- the aim of the game which was to make everyone regardless of age more aware of the harm that we could do to the oceans and the creatures that live in it
- everyone should to think about renewing or reusing items that we no longer use
Every one of the Panel of Judges independently chose this, “The Last Mermaid”
as it was relevant to the theme, with a clear simple explanation, together with
- with suitable picture(s) relevant to the theme for that year,
- showing a possible useful application,
- to help solve a problem