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Congratulations JavaScript Takeover Winners!
For March madness, we asked you to re-imagine the web the way you want to see it, by creating a JavaScript bookmarklet that hijacked the images on any website. Wow. You guys did some awesome coding! We were really impressed with your Thimble hacks! This was one of our more difficult MicroProject challenges, and we want to give a big shout out to everyone who submitted something!
Our Grand Prize
Earning the MicroProject Winner Badge and a $60 gift card to Best Buy for their squad is MTechGeek from Addison Squeak Squad: Glitch Eradicators in California. They picked a rainbow theme for their bookmarklet and went way above and beyond by including extra code that remixed the text color as well! MTechGeek got bonus points for including GIFs and picking an exciting theme!
We'll make sure to keep this bookmarklet in our browser to make boring websites more colorful!
Check out 'The craziest Javascript Takeover' here!
Our First Runner Up
Our first runner up receiving a Papertronics Lunar Module for their squad is joseSgonzalez from Mouse Squad 368 in New York. We thought that joseS's project was hilarious and creative. We won't ruin the surprise, but the images might not be what you are expecting!
Check out 'ROCK ON!!!!' here!
Our Second Runner Up
Our second Runner Up (also receiving a Papertronics Lunar Module) is GreenEddie from Crooms AoIT-Fisher-7th Pd in Florida. We liked all the GIFs that GreenEddie included and the customized the Thimble page. The bookmarklett has a great title as well!
Check out 'That lovable little guy' here!
Honorable Mention
There were so many great projects this month we wish we had more prizes to give away! We would like to share these honorable mentions: Marcus F.'s 'IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!!', hgrewal's 'Hey Nature!', and reality_does_not_exist's 'Error messages'.
- It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time has a great Thimble design and fun GIFs.
- Hey Nature has a calming theme and beautiful images.
- And Error Messages is really clever and creative.
Shout out for Wins!
It's never too late to award Wins to your favorite MicroProject entries! Give wins for creativity, technical know-how or inspiration. This month we'd like to shout out The_Computer_Kid for giving a creativity win. The_Computer_Kid, we think you are Winner with a capital W!
When you see someone make a cool MicroProject submission, let them know that they did a great job by giving them a win!
Thank you to Coordinators and students who participated and submitted so many awesome bookmarklets! Next month is all about planning your big year-end project: Planet Plan-it!.