Polypad Art and Music Contest 2024
People around the world have used Polypad to create beautiful pieces of artwork, music, games, puzzles, visualisations of mathematical concepts, and much more. We want to see what you can do!
All students up to the age of 18 are invited to submit their best Polypad creations by 17 May 2024, and we will announce the winners on 7 June 2024.
By entering, you agree to our terms and conditions.
Categories and Prizes
Any student up to the age of 18 (as of 17 May 2024) can enter, and we will select winners in three age categories:
- Up to 10 years old
- 11 to 14 years old
- 15 to 18 years old
The top 20 winning entries in each age group will earn a $100 gift-card prize and will be featured on our site. Students can submit multiple entries, but can only win one prize.
To enter, send us a link to your saved Polypad canvas using the submission form. Students need a free Desmos Classroom account to enter – learn more about the different options for creating accounts. For students under the age of 15, the form should be completed by a teacher, parent or guardian.
Inspiration and advice
Your submissions could be artwork, songs, puzzles, games, logic explorations, or anything you can create on Polypad. You’re only limited by your own creativity and imagination! Here are the winners from our last contest in 2022.
If you’re new to Polypad, welcome – we’re glad you’re here! The best way to learn is to just dive in, and look out for the “?” icon in the action bar to learn more about the features and options. You can also read our tutorial, or watch our Polypad Pointer videos on YouTube.
Here are some of the things that are possible with Polypad:
Create a Work of Art
Compose a Piece of Music
Compute with Logic Gates
When judging, we will look for beautiful design (or sound), creativity and originality, interesting aspects of mathematics, as well as unique ways of using Polypad tools.
Regardless of what you create, you may want to use some of the more advanced authoring features of Polypad (e.g. locking tiles, changing labels or turning off actions).
Here are some tutorials and lessons that you might find useful: