Cape Town: The Libraries and Information Service of the City of Cape Town hosted a successful final round of its Coding tournament at the Goodwood Library. The event was a day of high-level competition, while learning and having fun together.
Reportedly, the twelve libraries entered with 20-teams who competed for a place on the podium. Even Libee, the library mascot attended and put smiles on the participants’ faces.
The winning teams will represent Cape Town in the national tournament in the month of October, which will be followed by the World Coding Tournament in December 2024.
As per the sources, during the previous round on Mandela Day, 28 libraries competed with 438 participants. The Tangible Africa is also responsible for creating coding applications, TANKS and RANGERS, which will allow participants to play offline, by using minimal resources.
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Services and Health – Councillor Patricia Van der Ross said that they are really excited to see the level of enthusiasm and the skill of the participants during the final round of the coding tournament at the Goodwood library.
The tournament gave the opportunity to the top teams to compete for podium place. The top three teams would be up against the best then they represented the City of Cape Town at the National Tournament and they are hopeful that the teams will excel and qualify for the Word Coding Championship.
Notably, the City libraries collectively hosted in-house coding sessions, commemorating the Mandela Day. In total, twenty-seven libraries took the initiative, and once the scores were in, two teams from Elsies River library made it to the top-three.
The in-house coding sessions attracted 438 participants, forming more than 30 teams, who went head-to-head at 28 libraries. The Mandela Day Coding tournament was played at the national level with support from the Tangible Africa and Leva Foundation partners.
Considering this, Councillor Patricia Van der Ross said that the libraries have really taken the proverbial bull by the horns with the coding initiative.
She said, “I am so happy to see how it is taking hold and hope that we can build on its growing popularity, by getting even more of the libraries and the communities involved in the future.”
Ross extended the wishes and said, “Congratulations to everyone who participated this time around and good luck to the teams who will move on to the rounds, still to come.”