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Code Championship
Fun, competitive, and friendly virtual coding tournaments for new and experienced coders from 3rd to 9th grade
Grades 3 to 9
If you can navigate the web, we will guide you through the rest!
New Coders
Our one-off tournaments are the perfect way to try coding for the first time!
Experienced Coders
Join our Tournament Series to test your skills against the best of the best!
Code is Sport! Just like gymnastics 🤸♀️ dance 💃 or basketball 🏀 competitive coding pushes us to be great 🏆 Build a computer bot 🤖 to play head-to-head against other coders!
What is a Code Championship Tournament?
Example Tournament Schedule
Time
Activity
8:55
Players enter and get ready
9:00
Walk through event plan
9:05
Introduce challenge
9:10
Build and help time
9:40
Pool play
10:10
Build and help time
10:45
Tournament play
10:55
Congratulations and goodbyes
Code Championship Tournaments are fun and friendly virtual coding competitions. Typically 1.5 hour to 2 hours long, they are open to new and experienced coders alike. Every tournament will be a little different, but here is an example of a common, 2-hour tournament schedule.
He really, really enjoyed this series - not just the coding part, but also getting to know other like-minded kids! Thanks so much for offering it!
- Laura, Parent of 4th Grade Coder
🌷 Spring 2021 Tournament Series 🌷
April 3 to May 8 Saturdays, 9am - 11am
$315 $145 if registered by March 20, 2021
$145
The Spring 2021 Code Championship Series is a series of six tournaments in six weeks. The top point scorers, will advance to the 2021 Minnesota State Tournament. Learn more about scoring.
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
November 20 - 2021 Minnesota State Tournament
All tournaments will take place from 9am - 11am.
Grades 3 to 9
If you can navigate the web, we will guide you through the rest!
New Coders
We will coach you through getting started and help you improve!
Experienced Coders
Play against the best! Winners advance to the State Championship.
It was so fun! The kids were so engaged and helping each other and it really encouraged healthy competition.
Congratulations Aaron B on winning the 2020 Minnesota Code Championship! Not only have these competitors shown incredible coding skill, but their friendliness in the heat of competition has welcomed more coders to the sport than ever before!
The 2021 Minnesota State Tournament will be held on November 20, 2021. The Spring 2021 Tournament Series is the next chance to earn your spot in the State Tournament.
This was so much fun!!!!!!!!!
- Lily, Coder, 6th Grade
🤖 Build a Bot 🤖
Code Championship is a competitive computer coding platform. Check out this video to get an idea of how to start!
When you are ready to play, select one of the challenges below! We recommend starting with Rabbit Race!
If you are interested in joining a competitive computer coding tournament, check out our Tournaments page!
Learning follows excitement. So the real question we should be asking is, "How do we excite the next generation about code?" And that’s where the idea for Code Championship comes from.
We are a group of highly energetic teachers and software developers who believe that all students should learn a little bit about code. Even if they're not professional software developers, - and we don't believe everyone has to be - code is going to be such an important part of their lives, that they should know at least a little bit about it.
If we've learned anything over the past six years of teaching kids to code, it is that Learning follows Excitement.
Competitive computer coding. We wanted to bring a sports-like mentality to code, to make coding more like a sport, and we did it by making code competitive. We created games that make practicing worth it.
