Overview
Develop your project individually or in a team (max. 3 people)
Record and upload video
Check that all requirements are fulfilled per your category
Things to Remember
- If you are under 13, please get the help from a parent, guardian or teacher to submit on your behalf.
- Participants can only register and be judged on 1 project (individual or group project) at Coolest Projects.
- You can enter as an individual or as a team (max. 3 people).
- All submissions must be in English or Bahasa Malaysia. A video with Bahasa Malaysia audio is required to have an English subtitle integrated.
- All project and video submissions will be made available for the public to see. Make sure you don’t include any personal and sensitive information in your projects and videos.
- You must answer the three questions about your project. Please remember this when recording your submission videos and double-check this before you submit.
- The URLs of your Scratch projects (if you are participating in the Scratch category), URLs of web projects (if you are participating in the Web category), and URLs of your videos are important. Make sure you have them when filling out the submission form! You may also add a programming code file URL for Games and Hardware projects if you think it might help the judges understand your project better.
- Top entries for each category will be invited to showcase their projects to our panel of judges to determine the winning entries. This session will be conducted in-person at Spice Arena, Penang.
- Please ensure that the project is your work and is not copied wholesale from any other person’s work.
- All participants are reminded to refrain from using any inappropriate, violent and/or copyrighted content in their projects.
- Coolest Projects is open to unfinished projects: just submit your project and showcase the parts that are working. Coolest Projects is all about the experience and learning gained from participating and showcasing what you have created.
Instructions
You will need
- A laptop, desktop computer, or tablet with internet access
- The URL of your completed Scratch project to be uploaded to our Scratch studio
- A device with the ability to record video
How to submit your project
- Develop your project.
- Visit our Coolest Projects Malaysia Scratch studio and add your project by URL.
- Record a short video (maximum of 5 minutes – content beyond 5 minutes will not be considered) to show us your project and answer these three questions:
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Once you have completed your video, upload it to YouTube. Remember to disable comments on your uploaded video and to make sure that it is not private.
- Once that’s successful, visit the submission page and complete the form. Remember to include the URL (link) of your Scratch project and video.
Quick checklist for Scratch projects
- Have you uploaded your Scratch project onto Coolest Projects Malaysia Scratch studio?
- Have you recorded and uploaded a video that answers the following questions onto YouTube?
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Have you filled in the submission form with the URL of your Scratch project and URL of your video
You will need
- A laptop, desktop computer, or tablet with internet access
- The URL of your completed web project.
- A device with the ability to record video
How to submit your project
- Develop your project.
- Two options:
- Option 1: Zip your projects files and upload them onto Google Drive. Make note of the URL link to the zip file and ensure that the link is viewable by ‘Anyone with the link’.
- Option 2: Make note of the URL link of your website that is hosted online.
- Record a short video (maximum of 5 minutes – content beyond 5 minutes will not be considered), which shows us your project and the code you used to make it. In the video, answer these three questions:
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Once you have completed your video, upload it to YouTube. Remember to disable comments on your uploaded video and to make sure that it is not private.
- Once that’s successful, visit the submission page and complete the form. Remember to include the URL (link) of your zipped web project and video.
Quick checklist for Web projects
- Have you recorded and uploaded a video that answers the following questions onto YouTube?
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Have you filled in the submission form with the URL of your web project and URL of your video?
You will need
- A laptop, desktop computer, or tablet with internet access
- A device with the ability to record video
How to submit your project
- Develop your project.
- Make a short video (maximum of 5 minutes – content beyond 5 minutes will not be considered), which shows us your project and the code you used to make it. In the video, answer these three questions:
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Once you have completed your video, upload it to YouTube. Remember to disable comments on your uploaded video and to make sure that it is not private.
- Once that’s successful, visit the submission page and complete the form. Remember to include the URL (link) of your video.
Quick checklist for Hardware projects
- Have you recorded and uploaded a video that fulfils the following requirements onto YouTube?
- Shows your project
- Shows your code
- Answers the following questions
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Have you filled in the submission form with the URL of your video?
You will need
- A laptop, desktop computer, or tablet with internet access
- A device with the ability to record video
How to submit your project
- Develop your project.
- Make a short video (maximum of 5 minutes – content beyond 5 minutes will not be considered), which shows us your project and the code you used to make it. In the video, answer these three questions:
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Once you have completed your video, upload it to YouTube. Remember to disable comments on your uploaded video and to make sure that it is not private.
- Once that’s successful, visit the submission page and complete the form. Remember to include the URL (link) of your video.
Quick checklist for Games projects
- Have you recorded and uploaded a video that fulfils the following requirements onto YouTube?
- Shows your project
- Shows your code
- Answers the following questions
- Tell us about your project. Why did you choose to make it?
- What did you find difficult while making your project and how did you work it out?
- Is there anything you would do differently or you would add if you had more time?
- Have you filled in the submission form with the URL of your video?