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Programming has been incorporated into Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education Curriculum as an essential skill for future talents. Through coding, students can not only develop systems thinking, logical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities, but also cultivate aesthetics, digital literacy, and innovative adaptability during the creative process. The Hualien County Information Education Competition is designed with these goals in mind, aiming to stimulate students’ computational thinking and problem-solving potential by requiring them to design animations and games using the intuitive Scratch programming language.