The contest is over, but the activity is still available
Teachers, you can still take advantage of this engaging, relevant opportunity to broaden and deepen students' coding and problem-solving skills. Use the TI Codes Contest materials as a starting point to create and hold your own project-building contest with your students.
Here's the challenge: Identify an everyday process that can be automated or optimized, imagine and design the enhancement, then use Texas Instruments technology to build a model of the solution.
Grand prize winner - Berlin InvenTeam
Meet the finalists
Check out the innovative projects submitted by the other advancing teams, and special accolades awarded by TI judges.
The Chemistree – Third place runner-up
Going for Brake – Most Practical Solution – TI Judges' Accolade
Hypersomnia – Most Impressive Prototype – TI Judges' Accolade
The BMS Scare Bears – Most Creative Video – TI Judges' Accolade
The MAGNETizing Men – Honorable Mention – TI Judges' Accolade
CHSEAST
The Candied Yams
Cool SIDE
TI STEM technology
Teams used the calculators' built-in language to program their models.
TI-84 Plus CE and TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculators
Teams used the calculators' built-in coding language to program their models.
TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board
The calculator-powered programmable platform that gives students hands-on experience with coding.
TI-Innovator™ Rover robotic vehicle
Powered by TI calculators and a Hub, Rover puts math, science and coding in motion to drive conceptual curiosity.