The Commissioner’s Learn to Speak Robot Challenge is a digital/computational thinking challenge for children and young people. By completing four Challenge activities listed on this website before the end of Term 3 each year South Australian students are eligible to win prizes for their school.

The Commissioner’s Zoom Out Challenge is a systems thinking challenge for children and young people. By completing one of the three Challenge activities listed on this website before the end of Term 3 each year South Australian students are eligible to win prizes for their school.

The Challenge Activities are activities, tutorials and lessons that are free and already publically accessible online, curated for the purposes of both Challenges. Most are estimated to take around one hour or less.

For Learn to Speak Robot, students choose any activities from:

• Code.org’s Hour of Code tutorials accessible at https://hourofcode.com/au/learn
• Grok Learning’s Hour of Code activities at https://groklearning.com/hoc/
• MakeCode tutorials from Microsoft at https://makecode.microbit.org/
• Australian curriculum approved Digital Technologies Hub lessons at https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas#/
• Activities from CS Unplugged at https://classic.csunplugged.org/activities/
• Projects from Code Club Australia at https://codeclubau.org/projects#projectCards

For Zoom Out students choose from the three customised systems thinking activities from: 

• Systems are Everywhere
• Create a System
• Make a Kinder System

Best efforts are made to maintain active links to the Challenge Activities. However, if you come across a faulty link, it would be helpful to let the Promotor know via the Contact form so the link can be fixed as soon as possible.

The Challenge Activities are subject to change.

Any child (under 18 years) residing in South Australia is eligible to take part in the Challenge to potentially earn digital rewards for their school / scout badges / guide badges.

Children and young people outside of South Australia and those over 18 years are welcome to use all accessible material on the site, and schools and homeschool groups outside of South Australia are welcome to register and complete the Challenge steps.

Schools and homeschool groups outside of South Australia that have registered and have at least one student complete the Challenge will be eligible to receive the relevant Certificate of Achievement template from the Commissioner for Children and Young People for the relevant Challenge.

Please note: Schools and homeschool groups outside South Australia are not eligible to receive any of the digital rewards. Scout and Guide badges can only be earned by South Australian Scouts and Guides taking part outside of school.

There are two ways to take part:

AT SCHOOL

• Students across all year levels are welcome to take one or both Learn to Speak Robot and/or the Zoom Out! Challenge at their school. Schools need to register for students to participate. 
• Homeschool groups (of 10 or more students) can register to participate.
• Children and young people can take part as individual participants using the Outside School options (see below).

OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

Anyone under 18 years of age can take part:

• at home with family
• at their local library as part of the Library’s after school or school holiday program, or simply using the Library’s free computer and WiFi access.
• Scouts SA
• Girl Guides SA
• Children’s University Adelaide (CUA) Learning Destination
  

Most of the Challenge activities are suited to children aged 8 years and over, but there are activities for all ages from pre-schoolers to adults, and for all levels of ability and experience – from newbies to advanced. Many adults have told us they learnt a lot while assisting their child to complete the Commissioner’s Digital Challenge!

Early Learning Unplugged 

This FREE unplugged device free version of Learn to Speak Robot has been created specifically for children aged 3-5 years. Find out more here

The Challenge opens on the first day of Term 1 each year.

It is recommended that students provide their completed coding record form to their school’s Challenge Coordinator by mid September each year. This allows time for the Challenge Coordinator to collate the information and lodge a Challenge Completion Form on behalf of their school or community group before the closing date on the last day of Term 3.  The individual student coding records do not need to be provided to the Promoter.

Challenge Completion Forms are due by midnight on the last day of Term 3 each year.

Once a school, home school group, or communtiy group has registered, their School’s Challenge Coordinator is sent an information package that contains links to the relevant Student Record sheet for each Challenge.

Every students taking part in the Challenge needs to record details of the digital challenges they complete on their Student Record Sheet and return this to their Teacher who passes it to their School’s Challenge Coordinator for collation onto the School’s Challenge Completion Form.

Student Record sheets do not need to be provided to the Promoter. 

It is recommended that all Challenge activities are completed by mid September to allow plenty of time for the Challenge Coordinator to collate, prepare and submit the school’s Challenge Completion Form by the last day of South Australian school Term 3 each year.

The Challenge Completion Form can be downloaded here.

One Challenge Completion Form needs to be completed by the Challenge Coordinator and submitted before the Challenge closes at midnight on the last day of South Australian School Term 3.

When filling out the Challenge Completion Form, the School Coordinator is asked to include a testimonial from a participating student. This testimonial is used by the Commissioner when determining the allocation of digital rewards and is requested to increase student voice and agency.

Below is the question format for the testminonial:

The benefit(s) I experienced by taking part in the Commissioner’s [insert name of  Challenge] Challenge were …… (in 35 words or less or in picture format).

The most creative and/or compelling and/or authentic and/or insightful groups of testmonials provided is ranked highest.  Images can be uploaded, and winning is all about creativity.

The testomonials are blind judged (identifying information about the school is removed) by the Commissioner for Children and Young People, Helen Connolly, before the end of October each year.

Decisions made by the Commissioner are final and are not subject to appeal.

Arrangements will be made for rewards to be distributed to winning schools during Term 4.

Upon submitting the Challenge Completion Form, Challenge Coordinators receive the template for a digital Certificate of Achievement to share with other participating teachers. These can be easily personalised for all children and young people who have completed the Commissioner’s Learn to Speak Robot Challenge inside or outside of school. Certificates can be either printed or distributed electronically to each particpating child or young person according to their preference.

Winners are usually published on the Challenge website within 72 hours of the final decision being made by the Commissioner (usually in late October). Winning schools are contacted by email via the relevant School Challenge Coordinator to advise they have won and to be put in contact with the prize sponsor to arrange delivery. 

Children complete and submit their online Coding Record by the end of Term 3 in September each year.  After submitting their Coding Record, a PDF digital certificate from the Commissioner will be automatically sent to the email address provided on the Coding Record. This can be either an indiviual or the Challege Coordinator.

Late entries cannot be considered.

Every child completing the Challenge outside of school receives a PDF digital certificate from the Commissioner via the email address they provide on their online submission.

If you are a Scout in South Australia who completes the Commissioner’s Learn to Robot Challenge, you will earn yourself the exclusive ‘Speak Robot’ badge.

Children already completing the Challenge at school can do it again outside of school as many times as they like.

Each Scout completing the Challenge is entitled to a maximum of just one ‘Speak Robot’ badge.

All groups and ages of Scouts under 18 years, including Joeys, are able to take part.

The ‘Speak Robot’ badge can also be used towards the following Scout badges:

Cub Scouts

• Boomerang
• Achievement badges (Information Technology Levels 1 & 2)

Scouts

• Proficiency badges
  • Technology
  • Information Technology

Venturer Scouts

• Pursuits

Pioneer Scouts

• Special Interest Area (STEM)

To receive your ‘Speak Robot’ badge, please forward your Learn to Speak Robot Certificate of Achievement (which will be emailed to you after you submit your completed Coding Record online) to your Scout Leader before mid October each year.

Scout Leaders can collect the ‘Speak Robot’ badge by emailing their Digital Challenge Certificates through to program@sahq.scouts.com.au

Badges will be sent direct to Scout Leaders for distribution.

Visit the Scouts SA website for more information about how to complete the Challenge with Scouts and then speak to your local Scout Leader.

If you or your Scout Leader requires further information about the Learn to Speak Robot Challenge and ‘Speak Robot’ badge, please contact:

Scouts South Australia
Phone 08 8130 6000
program@sahq.scouts.com.au

If you require additional assistance, please notify the Promoter at: CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au

If you are a Girl Guide in South Australia who completes the Commissioner’s Learn to Speak Robot Challenge you can present your Learn to Speak Robot Certificate of Achievement to your Guide leader before mid October to receive your limited edition ‘Speak Robot’ badge.

Children already completing the Challenge at school can do it again outside of school as many times as they like. Each Girl Guide completing the Challenge outside of school is entitled to a maximum of one ‘Speak Robot’ badge.

The ‘Speak Robot’ badge may be credited towards the following Guide challenges:

• Create a Challenge
• Explore a Challenge
• Discover a Challenge
• Achieve a Challenge
• Junior Baden Powell Award
• Baden Powell Award
• WAGGGS programs

Visit the Girl Guides SA website here for more information about how to complete the Challenge with Guides or speak to your local Guide Leader.

Badges will be distributed by Girl Guides SA.

Please check with your local contact and via the GGSA website.

If your Guide Leader requires further information about collection or postage of the ‘Speak Robot’ badges, please direct them to contact the Promoter via email to:

CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au

If you are a CUA member, the Commissioner’s Challenge is a validated Learning Destination.

CUA validated activities are ‘Hour of Code’ or Grok ‘Hour of Code’ activities only. Look out for the CUA logo on approved activities:

These activities need to be completed outside of curriculum time to be included in the CUA Passport to Learning. Note that children can take part in the Challenge anywhere, including on school grounds, as long as participation is out of curriculum time.

Once the activity has been completed, hours are awarded by the CUA school coordinator and added to the Passport to Learning when evidence is produced. This evidence takes the form of a screen shot of the completed activity.

If you enjoyed the Challenge (4 x 1 hour activities), students can complete up to 6 additional Hour of Code & GROK Hour of Code activities to receive up to a maximum of 10 hours credit in their passports.

For non-CUA members, find out more at the CUA website.

Refer to our mini-guide for librarians wishing to run a Challenge program.

Every individual child or young person who participates in the Challenge via their library needs to submit their completed Coding Record to be sent a personalised Certificate of Achievement from the Commissioner. Libraries running programs are asked to encourage all individual participants to submit their online Coding Records by the end of September, so that a Certificate of Achievement can be prepared and forwarded to them in a timely way.

Libraries wishing to run a program are asked to contact the Promoter at CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au so that

1. your Library’s details can be included on the Challenge website as a participating library.
2. your Library can be sent the ‘Official Commissioner’s Digital Challenge Destination’ Seal to display in your library or your social media (optional).

The person contacting the Promoter needs to have authority to run a program at their library or to speak on the Library’s behalf.

The Challenge commences on the first of South Australian School Term 1 and closes on the final day of School Term 3 each year. All Library Challenge programs need to take place within this timeframe.

Programs can be offered in Terms 1 or 2, during the school holidays, or after school.

Any library can promote the Challenge. A free promotional pack containing posters, socials graphics and an LED screen image is available for download here.

Children of South Australia are challenged to complete any three official Zoom Out Challenge activities before the end of School Term 3.

The Zoom Out Challenge Activities are:

• SYSTEMS ARE EVERYWHERE – an online series of micro-activities demonstrating the key behaviours of systems. Each fun micro-activity takes only minutes to complete and can be worked through at a pace to suit your classroom. This activity can be completed during a single lesson. Suitable for children and young people of all ages from around middle primary school-age. Younger children will require assistance.
• CREATE A SYSTEM – an unplugged (no computers or devices required) activity that teaches children and young people to design and communicate systems with their peers through a hands-on activity that uses balloons or other materials available to hand. Quick to set up and implement, this activity can be completed in a single lesson or less. It is suitable for children and young people of all ages who are able to read names.
• MAKE A KINDER SYSTEM – a simple game with complex cooperation and competition strategies. It serves as an introduction to “seeing the whole” system and its effects on individuals, societies, economies and environments and is best suited to children and young people in middle-late primary school and secondary school.

The Zoom Out Challenge Activities have been curated in partnership with GROK Academy specially for the Challenge.

Any child (under 18 years of age) residing in South Australia is eligible to take part in the Challenge to potentially earn digital rewards for their school / scout badges / guide badges.

Children and young people outside of South Australia and those over 18 years are welcome to use all accessible material on the site. Schools, homeschool groups and Community Groups outside of South Australia are welcome to register and complete the Challenge steps.

Schools and home school groups outside of South Australia that have registered and have at least one student complete the Challenge are eligible to receive the Certificate of Achievement template to complete and pass on to their student/s.

Please note: Schools and homeschool groups completing the Challenge outside of South Australia are not eligible to receive any digital rewards. Scout and Guide badges for those taking part outside of school are only available to South Australian Scouts and Guides.

There are two ways to take part:

AT SCHOOL

• Students across all year levels are welcome to take the Challenge at their school providing the school is registered.
  • Check if your school is registered.
  • Schools can register here.
• Home school groups (of 10 or more students) can register using this registration form. Alternatively, children can take part as individual participants using the Outside of School option (below).

OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

• Anyone aged under 18 years can take part:
• with Family at home
• at their local library  as part of an after school or Library school holidays program, or by simply using the Library’s free computer and WiFi access and following the steps online.
• via Scouts SA
• via Girl Guides SA

The Challenge activities are designed for children and young people from 3 to 18 years.

The Challenge opens on the first day of South Australian School Term 1.

It is recommended that students provide completed Student System Thinking Records to their school’s Challenge Coordinator by mid September to enable the Challenge Coordinator to collate and submit these to the Promoter before the final day of Term 3. The student’s records do not need to be provided to the Promoter. 

Challenge Completion Forms are due by midnight on the last day of Term 3 (30 September 2022).

Once a school has registered, the Challenge Coordinator will receive an information pack that includes a downloadable Systems Thinking Record to distribute to each participating student.

Every student taking part in the Zoom Out! Challenge will need to complete one of these forms and return it to their School’s Challenge Coordinator when they have completed the Zoom Out! Challenge Activity.

These records do not need to be provided to the Promoter. They are retained by the school.

It is recommended that Challenge activities be completed by mid-September to allow the School’s Challenge Coordinator time to collate and submit their school’s online Challenge Completion Form before the end of Term 3.

The Challenge Completion Form can be accessed here.

One Challenge Completion Form per school is to be completed by the School Coordinator and submitted online before the Challenge closes at midnight on the last day of Term 3 (24 September) 2021.

At the time of completing the Challenge Completion Form, the School Coordinator is asked to provide one student testimonial. The purpose of basing rewards on student testimonials is to increase student agency.

The benefit(s) I experienced taking part in this Challenge (35 words or less or in picture format)

The testimonials to this question determine distribution of rewards – the most creative and/or compelling and/or authentic and/or insightful groups of answers are ranked highest.

Images can be uploaded and winning is all about creativity.

The answers will be blind judged (identifying information about the school removed) by the Commissioner for Children and Young People, Helen Connolly, on or before 24 October 2021.

Decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

Arrangements will be made for rewards to be distributed to winning schools during Term 4 2021.

Upon submitting the Challenge Completion Form, school coordinators will receive the template for a digital certificate to share with teachers.

Teachers can input the name of the relevant student to print or electronically distribute to every child who completed the Challenge.

Schools are asked to retain the Student Systems Thinking Record Forms submitted by their students for a period of 6 months from the date the Challenge closes (until the end of March 2022).

See Learn to Speak Robot Terms and Conditions for details relating to Notification of Winners.

Space to Dream challenges children and young people to design a toy or gadget for someone their age who is moving to Mars. There are two options for creating designs: (1) using free 3D design tools from Makers Empire (2) hand-drawing designs onto the ‘MAKE IT!’ Student Design Record (in schools) or the ‘MAKE IT! Design Sheet (outside school).

All children and young people under 18 years of age residing in South Australia are eligible to take the Challenge. Students taking the challenge via a registered school or Library become eligible to win prizes and rewards for their school/library with top rated designs selection for inclusion in the annual Space to Dream Travelling Exhibition. Designs submitted by students from home school groups and community groups receive the Certificate of Achievement. Girl Guides and Scouts can earn badges and Children’s University Adelaide students can earn accrediation for their Passport to Learning. 

Please note that Schools and homeschool groups outside of South Australia who complete the space to Dream Challenge are not eligible for prizes. 

Scout and Guide badges are only available to South Australian Scouts and Guides. 

There are two ways to take part:

AT SCHOOL

• Students across all year levels are welcome to take the Challenge at their school providing the school is registered.
• Check if your school is registered for Space to Dream here.
• Schools can register here.
• Homeschool groups (of 10 or more students) can register using the same registration form here. Alternatively, children can take part as individual participants using the Outside of School option (see below). Children can take part as many times as they wish, whether inside or outside school.

OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

• Anyone aged under 18 years can take part:
• at home with family
• at their public library as part of an after school or school holiday program, or simply using the Library’s free computer and WiFi access.
• Scouts SA
• Girl Guides SA

Challenge Completion Forms are due by midnight on the last day of Term 3 each year. 

A blank ‘MAKE IT!’ Student Design Record template is supplied to the Challenge Coordinator at registration. Each student taking part in the Space to Dream Challenge needs to be issues with this Record.

Only students drawing their designs need to draw their design onto the sheet.

Those using Makers Empire 3D software need to enter the Username they used to create the design onto the sheet so that their design can be located in the Makers Empire Gallery. 

All students are asked to complete some basic questions about their design. They are also asked to set out their year level and other information that will be used for the purposes of gathering anonymous statistics. No names or identifying details of students will be published without explicit prior consent.

Each school chooses 3 designs to submit with their school’s Challenge Completion Form. The Commissioner recommends peer review as the best way to make this selection but there is complete flexibility in this regard.

For schools to view Makers Empire designs created by their own students they need to :

• Search by username in the Makers Empire gallery. (Each student completes a ‘MAKE IT!’ Student Design Record that includes their Makers Empire Username which they used to access the FREE 3D design software.)
• Those schools that subscribe to Makers Empire will be able to access student’s designs in the Teacher’s Dashboard.

For schools to view hand-drawn designs created by their own students simply search via the collected ‘MAKE IT!’ Student Design Records.

USING MAKERS EMPIRE

School site access to Makers Empire at Department of Education schools: Makers Empire has been centrally configured to work within the eduCONNECT LearnLink Filtering Service.

Risk management considerations when using 3rd party software:

– Please note that information stored on the Makers Empire site is stored in the USA where privacy laws are different to Australian privacy laws.

– Teachers are encouraged to not sync Google classroom with Makers Empire and to ensure students follow the school’s ICT acceptable use policies.

– Schools using Makers Empire may wish to ask parents / carers of children aged under 18 years to sign a consent form as the content on the Makers Empire site is created by members of the public.

Designs selected for inclusion in the exhibition are published on the Challenge website along with the overall prize winner, approximately 72 hours after the final decision has been made by the Commissioner. Schools are contacted by email via the relevant School Coordinator.

If you complete the Challenge and you are a Scout in South Australia, you will earn the exclusive ‘Space to Dream’ badge.

Children already completing the Challenge at school can take the Challenge again outside of school as many times as they like.

Each Scout completing the Challenge is entitled to a maximum of one ‘Space to Dream’ badge in 2022.

All groups and ages of Scouts under 18 years, including Joeys, are able to take part.

Think about how the ‘Space to Dream’ badge could be used towards the following badges:

Cub Scouts

• Boomerang
• Achievement badges
• Information Technology level 1 & 2

Scouts

• Proficiency badges
• Technology
• Information Technology

Venturer Scouts

• Pursuits

Pioneer Scouts

• Special Interest Area
• STEM

Contact Bek Hobbs at Scouts to discuss any other badges.

To receive your ‘Space to Dream’ badge, please forward your Space to Dream Certificate of Achievement (which will be emailed to you after you submit your Space to Dream Challenge Completion Form) to your Scout leader before 17 October 2022.

Scout Leaders can collect the Space to Dream badge by emailing Digital Challenge Certificates through to program@sahq.scouts.com.au

Badges will be sent direct to Leaders.

Visit the Scouts SA website for more information about how to complete the Challenge with Scouts and speak to your local Scout Leader.

If you or your Leader requires further information about the ‘Space to Dream’ badges, please direct them to this website and/or ask them to contact:

Bek Hobbs
Branch Program Support Officer
Scouts Australia (SA Branch)
211 Glen Osmond Road
Frewville
SA 5063
Phone 08 8130 6000
program@sahq.scouts.com.au

In the case that you require additional assistance, please notify the Promoter at: CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au

If you complete the Challenge and you are a Girl Guide in South Australia, you can present your Space to Dream Certificate of Achievement to the Guide leader before 15 October 2020 to receive your limited edition ‘Space to Dream’ badge.

Children already completing the Challenge at school can take the Challenge again outside of school as many times as they like.

Each Guide completing the Challenge is entitled to a maximum of one ‘Space to Dream’ badge in 2021.

The ‘Space to Dream’ badge may be credited towards the following Guide challenges:

• Create a Challenge
• Explore a Challenge
• Discover a Challenge
• Achieve a Challenge
• Junior Baden Powell Award
• Baden Powell Award
• WAGGGS programs

Visit the Girl Guides SA website here for more information about how to complete the Challenge with Guides or speak to your local Guide Leader.

Badges will be distributed by Girl Guides SA.

Please check with your local contact and via the GGSA website.

If your Guide Leader requires further information about collection / postage of the ‘Space to Dream’ badges, please direct them to this website and/or ask them to contact:

Tina Brown
Assistant State Commissioner
311 Military Rd, Henley Beach, SA 5022
ASC2@girlguidessa.org.au

In the case that you require additional assistance, please notify the Promoter at:
CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au

Refer to our mini-guide for librarians wishing to run a program.

There are no parameters regarding the program you offer providing it is appropriate for children of the age it is targeted to and that it uses the Challenge material.

Every individual participant who submits their Space to Dream Challenge Completion Form will be sent a personalised certificate of achievement from the Commissioner. Libraries running programs are asked to encourage all individual participants to submit their online Challenge Completion Forms by the end of Term 3 so that they receive their Space to Dream Certificate of Achievement from the Commissioner.

Libraries wishing to run a program are asked to contact the Promoter at CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au so that

1. Their details can be included on the Challenge website as a participating library.
2. They can be sent the ‘Official Commissioner’s Digital Challenge Destination’ Seal to display at their library and on social media (optional).

The person contacting the Promoter needs to have authority to run a program at their library or to speak on their behalf.

The Challenge commences on the first day of South Australian School Term 1 and closes on the last day of School Terms 3. All programs need to take place within this timeframe.

Programs can be offered in Term 1 or Term 2 after school or during school holidays.

Any library can promote the Challenge – free promotion packs for libraries containing poster for printing and LED screen image available here.

Entrants are responsible for any and all expenses that they incur in entering the competition and that they will not be reimbursed for such expenses regardless of whether or not they win a reward.

The Promotor maintains the right to disqualify any entrants or entries where there are reasonable grounds to suspect any unlawful or improper conduct, or if there has otherwise been a breach of the competition terms and conditions.

Personal information collected in the course of the Challenge is handled in a way that complies with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of the Office for the Commissioner and Young People.

Only the first names of children who complete the Challenge (whether at school or outside of school) will be published by the Promoter. Surnames and class details will not be published.

Promotional assets such as e-flyers, posters, LED screen graphics and the ‘Commissioner’ Digital Challenge official seal’, if altered by an entity, are the sole responsibility of that entity.

Entering the Challenge means that the entrant is representing that they meet the entry requirements and accepts these terms and conditions.

Any person providing a testimony (written or pictorial) for the Learn to Speak Robot Challenge or Zoom Out Challenge on behalf of their school or a design in the Space to Dream Challenge:

1. Warrants that they have all necessary rights to provide the intellectual property and consent to any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an infringement of their intellectual property.
2. Expressly licenses the intellectual property in their testimonial or design to the Promoter and it may be used for promotional or advertising purposes in future years of the Commissioner’s Digital Challenge.

Much of the material on this website is from third party providers.

Efforts have been made to properly attribute third party authors of the material at every point throughout the site. If there is any oversight due to human error, please contact us by email at CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au so that we may seek to correct it.

The predominant providers of 3rd party material for the Challenge are:

The Hour of Code™ is a United States’ initiative by Computer Science Education Week [csedweek.org] and Code.org [code.org] to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming. It is a global movement and all tutorials are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For the full terms and conditions relating to Hour of Code and Code.org material, please refer to https://code.org/tos.

Minecraft®, Disney®, Star Wars® and NBA® are registered Trade Marks of Microsoft Corporation or its subsidiaries, Disney and Disney Services and NBA.com respectively. Angry Birds are © 2016 Rovio Entertainment Ltd. Angry Birds is a trademark of Rovio Entertainment Ltd. Frozen and Moana are trademarks and © 2016 Disney. Star Wars is a trademark and © 2016 Lucasfilm and Disney. Minecraft is a trademark and © 2016 Microsoft.

The Digital Technologies Hub™: The Digital Technologies Hub is a single and easily accessible portal to a collection of freely available activities, learning sequences and other resources to support the teaching of the Australian Curriculum for digital technologies.

The aim of the Hub is to increase teacher and student engagement and confidence with digital technologies, and increase student proficiency in coding and computer programming. This website’s content is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and with the express permission of the Digital Technologies Hub.

CS Unplugged™:  CS Unplugged material is open source on GitHub, and this website’s content is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. The CS Unplugged is a project by the Computer Science Education Research Group at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

GROK Learning™: GROK Learning’s Hour of Code™ activities are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and with the express permission of GROK Learning.

MakeCode® and Microsoft® are registered trademarks of Microsoft. MakeCode is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license and with the express permission of Microsoft. Exclusive webinars produced by Microsoft for the Challenge were created by sponsorship agreement and Microsoft owns these.

Code Club Australia© is the intellectual property of Code Club. Code Club activities are shared with the express permission of Code Club.

The Extended Learning Material contains a multitude of links to resources and material from a wide array of third party providers in Australia and overseas. Each heading or description credits the source of the material and the links take the user directly to that material. Users are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the terms and conditions relating to any material they use.

If you come across a broken link or material that has changed and is no longer appropriate or functional, please notify us by email at CommissionersDigitalChallenge@sa.gov.au