Current Activities / e-competitions

The UK requires a workforce that is capable of demonstrating world class skills, confidence and innovation. Competitions provide an ideal environment for the development and demonstration of these attributes.

e-competitions is an IT sector initiative which is led by e-skills NTO. The initiative provides a focus, in terms of management and promotion, for quality IT competitions that support IT education and training from primary school to the workplace.

e-competitions represents a number of established and one-off individual and team competitions for people from a very broad range of IT backgrounds -from novice users to professional programmers.

1. IBM sponsored Hothouse.comp
2. The British Computer Society (BCS) Programming Competition
3. The IT Support Technician Competition
4. The Data Connection British Informatics Olympiad (BIO)
5. The Barclays Capital Programming Competition

Team-Start
‘To promote and encourage IT literacy for all.’ This competition for IT users will involve teams of four individuals - 2 men and 2 women - representing 4 different age groups 10-25; 25-35; 35-45; 45-upwards.

Junior Website Design Competition
e-competitions’ post bag receives a large number of requests from 10-16 year olds for a competition that enables them to use their website design skills.

BCS Scottish Awards for IT teachers and tutors
The awards will reward the teachers and tutors who are considered to be outstanding teachers.

Axios UK Girls’ IT Qualifications Awards
This scheme will award the girls who achieve outstanding IT results at school.

For further information about e-competitions visit the initiative’s website at www.e-competitions.org.uk .

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