How Competitions Can Motivate Children to Learn Programming

Abstract

In the present time, more and more children easily play with LEGOs, labyrinths, and puzzles, which help to master basic logical skills and algorithm creation. Playing the games they compete with peers at home and in a primary school to be faster and assemble a construction correctly, to set up and be able to manage a drone or a toy robot. Children are enthusiastic about competing and getting ahead of each other and with pleasure want to know how a drone works, how a robot is programmed, how a joystick is configured for a game. This article aims to provide teachers and parents with the evidence how competitions can motivate children to learn programming.