Participants must be female-identifying or gender non-binary students in 3-12th grade who reside in the United States or the District of Columbia.

• Participants must write a computer program to generate their Animated Art piece and provide a working link to view both the artwork and the code.
• Animation must be composed or constructed by a computer program using browser based coding environments (e.g. Scratch, Khan Academy, p5.js, CodeHS).
• All design elements MUST be coded. No gifs, jpgs, pngs, images from an image library (e.g. Sprites from Scratch’s sprite library), or other graphic files can be part of your project. The inclusion of any of these non-coded elements will lead to disqualification.
• There is no limit to the number of submissions per contestant, but each contestant may only win one prize per category.
• Entries can not be an animated self-portrait.
• Each entry must provide parent/guardian or teacher consent and contact information (if under 18 years old).

• All participants must first register at hub.code-art.com
• After registering, the submission form can be accessed on the dashboard (only accessible when logged into your Code/Art Hub account).
• A complete entry must include: The URL to your project (make sure it’s viewable by anyone with the link) & your written response to the following questions:(1) What was the inspiration behind your entry? (2) What was most challenging from a coding perspective in creating your project? (3) What did you find most rewarding?

Entries will be scored by a panel of judges. Judges will score entries based on: Overall Artwork+Effort, Complexity, Code Quality and Write-Up. See Rubric.

National winners will be awarded for each of the three grade divisions. All top 10 finalists per grade division will also receive Finalist recognition and a certificate at Code/Art Fest (or mailed if not local), but only the top 3 per grade division will receive prizes.

• 1st-3rd place for elementary school
• 1st-3rd place for middle school
• 1st-3rd place for high school

• Teachers, Code/Art’s Competition can help you teach coding in your classroom!
  • Access our easy-to-teach lesson plans by registering to our Hub.
  • Use our Excel template for easy submission of multiple student projects.
  • Submit 20+ student projects (made by female students) and receive a FREE t-shirt
  • The top elementary, middle school and high school teacher – those with the most student submissions – will each win a $100 cash prize and be recognized during the Code/Art Fest awards ceremony.

• Openprocessing.org
• Khan Academy
• P5js.org
• Threejs.org
• openframeworks
• Algorithmic Art Tutorials
• Creating Generative Art Tutorials
• Creative  Coding tutorials on Skillshare
• 10 minute tutorials on Github