Sunshine State Innovation Games 2027: Middle School Guidelines

Overview

Read and review the competition rules on the Innovation Games competition page.

Middle School Web projects will be written using HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript in Codecraft Works’ web editor ⎋.

This year’s project prompt is the following:

Create an original game or web story that explores how Earth’s systems work together, how our planet is changing, or how we are exploring the vastness of space. Your project could be about:

• how an ecosystem or habitat stays balanced
• how an extreme weather event or natural hazard forms and changes the land
• how a specific planet, moon, or star behaves in our universe
• how humans use technology to protect and preserve Earth’s resources
• or how another earth or space science topic (like the rock cycle, the water cycle, ocean currents, fossil layers, or rocket science) works in nature.

Use your code to bring the science of the Earth and space to life!

Registration & Project Submission

Teachers/coaches must register for the competition and create accounts for their student teams. Student accounts will be used for final project submission. Read the full instructions on Innovation Games competition page.

Each school may enter a maximum of three teams into the Web competition. Schools are encouraged to host their own competitions to allow more students to compete at the school level. Then, the top three teams from that school would be entered into the final competition.

Judging

This year’s project prompt is the following:

Create an original game or web story that explores how Earth’s systems work together, how our planet is changing, or how we are exploring the vastness of space. Your project could be about:

• how an ecosystem or habitat stays balanced
• how an extreme weather event or natural hazard forms and changes the land
• how a specific planet, moon, or star behaves in our universe
• how humans use technology to protect and preserve Earth’s resources
• or how another earth or space science topic (like the rock cycle, the water cycle, ocean currents, fossil layers, or rocket science) works in nature.

Use your code to bring the science of the Earth and space to life!

Students are permitted to use AI tools to create their projects. Students who use AI MUST document the following in their project README:

• which AI tool(s) were used
• a brief description of how the tool(s) were used
• list all of the prompts sent to the AI tool(s)

Projects that use AI tools but do not document them in the README may have a significant reduction in score or be disqualified.

Web Development Rubric & Scoring