Wolfram UK Programming Challenge 2012

The Wolfram Programming Challenge 2012 is a chance to get your students programming and contributing their creations to the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. As well as learning programming, students will have to exercise their creativity and presentation skills. The competition also gives students the opportunity for the real-world experience of getting their work published online—a great addition to UCAS applications and CVs.



"Programming is to STEM what composition is to English," says Conrad Wolfram, founder of computerbasedmath.org and CEO of Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. "It's the way to express yourself, to show your creativity, to make your own thing."

For Students

For Teachers
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Register Your School

Interested in taking part? You'll need to get your teacher to register so that we can send him or her important details and resources for the competition.

We'll also send your teacher a special code that enables us to link your entry to your teacher. We'll then get in touch with your teacher if you win.

Check out the About and Make an Entry pages for details on how to get started.

Register your school to get your student involved.


We'll send you all the details you'll need, such as where to download Mathematica, tips, and details about training.

Importantly, we'll send you a unique teacher code when you register that your students will need to use when submitting their entries. When your students are submitting their entries, the code they enter will enable us to link their submissions to you. We'll then get in touch with you to let you know if any of your students have won.

We will never get in touch with students directly—all correspondence will be through you.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is the world's largest collection of interactive knowledge apps—attracting millions of professional and educational visitors and bringing to life more than 7,000 ideas from STEM and a remarkable range of other fields.

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This challenge is sponsored in part by the Computer-Based Math initiative, which aims to build a completely new math curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart.

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