Strathmore Trophy

School pupils from across a number of different regions discovered a new way of computer programming on 12th June 2007 as they took part in the Strathmore Trophy competition at the School of Computing at the University of Dundee.  The pupils were using SCRATCH, a new visual programming tool developed by researchers at America's MIT.  SCRATCH allows animations and interactions to be easily sequenced using a visual storyboard and programming instructions to be put together like Lego blocks.  Pupils had just two hours to get to grips with SCRATCH and program their animations.

The Dollar Academy team are to be congratulated for coming third.  This was the first time they had entered the competition.