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🧩 Puzzle Coders 🚀 Intermediate

🔍 Search & Sort Academy

Find it. Order it. Count the steps.

👶 10–13 yrs 🗓️ ~10-week path 🚀 Self-paced · start anytime
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What you’ll do 🌈

An academy for ages 10–13 who can already loop and branch. Campers learn to find things, put them in order, and measure the work — the heart of real algorithms.

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🎬 Showcase project

Classroom Olympics Board

Search a roster, sort the scores, and report how many comparisons you needed.

Build a mini Olympics board: find a camper by name, sort scores high-to-low, and print a step-count so you can talk about efficiency like a coach.

Must include

  • ✅A list of names or scores you can search
  • ✅A working linear search that reports found or not found
  • ✅A sort (even a simple swap sort) that prints the ordered list
  • ✅A counter that shows how many comparisons you made

Stretch goals

  • 🌟Search for a score, not only a name
  • 🌟Stop early when search finds the person
  • 🌟Chart step counts for a short list vs a longer list
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🎤 Show it off: Show a parent the unordered list, then the search result, then the sorted board — and brag about the step counter.

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