Embroidery Designer is an app made for teens to program their own embroidery patterns to embroider them on their favorite clothes. Through the “Lego”-style visual programming language, kids can assemble code bricks into different shapes and designs that can be stitched using embroidery machines. Thereby, children can learn important mathematical and computational concepts.
BEST APP AWARD IN EUROPE by HMS APP INNOVATION CONTEST BY HUAWEI
Over 3,000 teams from over 170 countries and regions competed with approximately 1,000 integrated applications with HMS Core open capabilities. Catrobat’s Pocket Code was one of the participating Applications and we are really happy that we made it to the top and are one of 5 in the Best App category for Europe!
Graz University of Technology honors students and researcher who consider aspects like gender, age, or culture in their scientific work or lectures.
Science Award
by Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour Linz/Austria 10/2018
Acknowledgement of PhD thesis by Austrian Chamber of Labour (“science award”) 2018 as a valuable scientific contribution to improving the working and living conditions of employees in Austria
Nomination for Award Excellent Teaching
by TU Graz Graz/Austria 11/2018
TU Graz honors outstanding lectures every second years with the “Prize of Excellent Teaching”. The lecture “Programming 0” was nominated for this price.
2017
"Closing the Gender Gap" NetIdee Award
by NetIdee: Internet Foundation Austria (IPA) Vienna/Austria, 11/2017
The “Remote Mentor” project of Graz Catrobat, offers remote mentoring for girls in coding lessons with Pocket Code and was awarded the special prize “Closing the Gender Gap”.
2016
Winner of First prize Reimagine Education Award Europe
by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia/USA, 11/2016 => Link