Drawing Competition
Draw Characters, backgrounds, and MoRE to help Kids Tell stories About South Africa and learn Coding
We use Scratch to teach computer coding to kids. It's amazing free software that we’ve translated into isiZulu and it’s super creative (see projects kids we work with in Cato Manor have made)
But…
If a kid wants to make a football video game there is no picture of Moses Mabhida for them to use. If they want to make an animation of where they want to go to varsity, there is no Wits Campus drawing for them to use as a backdrop.
This drawing competition hopes to fix some of that, making the things that are special to South Africa - from pantsula, to traditional outfits, to the skyline of Sandton where they hope to have that larney job - available for learners to use in projects. We aren’t looking for super complicated drawings, here are some we have already organised. Check out how you can use these drawings to make a simple animation in Scratch or anything you want.
Competition Rules:
Open to everyone
You can enter as many drawings as you want
Digital drawings preferred (vector or bitmap as .svg or .png) but you can submit non-digital
Drawings must be your own but do not have to be made for this - have something that you drew last year that is dope and fits the bill, submit.
You can draw characters (people, animals, things, etc) or backgrounds (a city view, a public space, etc. note Scratch is 4:3 aspect ratio) See a list below of some of what we think would be great to have in Scratch
Drawings judged by how how they represent something unique about SA, quality and quantity. You can also enter different poses for a character like our pantsula character
By entering your drawing you release copyright to the image (this makes it possible to use them in Scratch without issues)
Prizes:
1st Prize: R2000, 2nd Prize: R1000, 3rd Prize: R500
How to Submit:
Email drawings to mandisi@codemakers.org.za and fill out this form
List of ideas (but don’t be limited by this): Transport - Gautrain, road signs, local airlines, taxis etc.; cities - skylines of big or small cities, Telkom tower or other buildings we all know; animals - big and little five, township dog, nguni cows, fynbos flowers, marine animals, etc.; our beautiful country - Drakensberg mountains, Table Mountain, the bush, the Wild Coast, city parks etc; sport stadiums - the stadium of your favourite football team, netball courts, World Cup stadiums; crafts; people in your community - taxi driver, police, nurse, teacher; famous South Africans - entertainers, leaders, scientists, artists; your school; your university; local products - omo bag, maize meal bag, your favourite food etc., housing; etc. etc. etc.
The whole idea is we want kids to have tools to be able to tell stories of where they are now and where they want to go in their lives.