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Goolalang Coding Educational Platform by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. Wins the A' Design Award in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. honored for education, teaching aid and training content design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Goolalang Coding Educational Platform by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd., designed for Goolalang, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Goolalang Coding Educational Platform
Goolalang is a coding education platform for young children. Goolalang uses a drag-and-drop programming language created for the kindergarten stage. A program looks like a road seen from above, with signs that show the direction of the flow, and a footprint marks the block that is running. Children build scenes by importing sprites and backgrounds from libraries, then attach programming blocks to write stories and animations with several sprites. A series of courses is included, and programs can be shared between devices.
About Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.
I am a member of the start-up company Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. Our company comes from the academic organization of Zhejiang University and is committed to developing STEAM educational software for children. We hope that children can grow up in an environment full of imagination and happiness, which can be better realized with today's technology and products. To provide children with a better educational environment, every effort is meaningful.
Award Record
This recognition makes Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award
The A' Education Design Award is an international competition recognizing good education products and projects by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to education designers, teaching aid designers, training content creators and curriculum developers from all countries. Entries typically include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. Awarded education designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/education
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/96777
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/96777
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!96777
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/266958
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.goolalang.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Goolalang Coding Educational Platform
- Function
- Coding Educational Platform
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Dark Khaki, Black, Teal, Lavender and Burly Wood
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Goolalang
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #96777
Credits
- Team
- Yinghan Jin, Yiqiang Chen, Min He and Chunying Luo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Goolalang App is a programming platform for young children based on Goolalang, which is a new drag-and-drop programming language. The appearance of a Goolalang program is like a top-down road with signs representing the direction the program runs. When program is running, a footprint stops where the program executes. It is easy to write multi-sprite stories and animations due to the creative programming blocks. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses to help children learn Goolalang.
- Inspiration
- With the increasing popularity of children's programming education, programming education in the kindergarten stage has increasingly attracted the attention of society. However, the existing programming and creation tools for kindergarten children are few, which limits the ability of children to create freely. The promotion of kindergarten programming education needs programming languages and tools suitable for kindergarten children's physical development and cognitive level.
- Research
- We first study the theory of children's pedagogy, and then adopt the real user test of the beta version. Users of beta test are 30 children around 5-7 years old and 10 adults including kindergarten teachers, full-time mothers, college students, etc. The testing result shows every children show great interest in learning Goolalang programming, and most children can program their own stories or animations freely, which proves Goolalang is suitable for children to learn programming.
- Challenge
- One challenge is that while we realize the great importance of programming thinking in the kindergarten stage, Chinese society generally pays less attention to programming education in kindergarten. The other one is the difficulty to design the programming language, which should not only express programming concepts correctly, including sequences, loops, event and so on but also consider the understanding ability of kindergarten children.
- Realization and Technology
- Prototype: Pencil and paper, Axure RP. UI Design: Adobe Illustrator. Application Development: Xcode.
- Operation and Interaction
- In Goolalang, young children can build scenes by importing favourite sprites and backgrounds from libraries, then write programs by grabbing a programming block, finding a suitable position and attaching it under or inside another programming block again and again. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses, so young children can program while watching online videos. The video window can be dragged to any position and zoomed to any size. Also, programs can be shared through Airdrop.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began at Zhejiang University in China in 2017 and is currently being developed by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co.,Ltd.
- Specifications
- This application is based on iPad size and iOS 9 and above system.
- Keywords
- Goolalang, Kindergarten, Programming education, Graphical Programming, STEM
