**Creative Racket Competition 2022**

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

**Creative Racket Competition 2022**

 January 1, 2022 → February 28, 2022

***Get creative with Racket this winter! Win stickers!***

Entries can be... pictures, animations, interactive, sound or music or something else? ...are all acceptable. 

* You can enter as many times as you like 

* Entries need to be runnable by other racketeers. 

* Your entry must be created with Racket or a Racket language including RacketScript. (even your own)

See https://github.com/standard-fish/creative-racket-2022/blob/master/TOOLS.md for some suggestions but you can use anything you like.

It is easy to enter:

https://github.com/standard-fish/creative-racket-2022/issues/new?assignees=spdegabrielle&labels=&template=submit-competition-entry.md&title=%5BENTRY+TITLE%5D

  (If you can't use github let us know)

Discussion on Racket Discourse https://racket.discourse.group/tag/creative-racket , Discord https://discord.gg/6Zq8sH5 or Slack https://racket-slack.herokuapp.com/

Jens Axel & Stephen

https://github.com/standard-fish/creative-racket-2022

**Prizes**

Winners will receive an exclusive badge on their GitHub profile and laptop stickers. 

There will be a range of categories to reflect the diversity of entries. 

Special categories will include

* Racket mascot - winner will be chosen by peoples choice vote. 

* Racket meme 

Note: Not an official Racket competition. We not a members of the Racket team, nor are we doing this on their behalf.

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[Stephen De Gabrielle]

The ***Creative Racket Competition 2022*** starts today!

Enter early - enter often. 

Some ideas to get you started;

* Sketching - like Processing but *better* ! Look at the repo for a brief introduction, with links to the full documentation and examples: <https://github.com/soegaard/sketching>

* Animate an AOC solution

* use one of the functional picture libraries to create an [Escher tessellation](https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/257577/1/funcgeo2.pdf) Racket functional picture libraries ([pict](https://docs.racket-lang.org/pict/) or  [2htdp/image](https://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpimage.html)). More inspiration from Conal Elliot [Functional Images](http://conal.net/papers/functional-images/)

* Use [Graphite](https://icfp21.sigplan.org/details/scheme-2021-papers/8/Graphite-A-Library-for-Data-Visualization-Lightning-Talk-) to visualise some data

Theses are just suggestions - everything is permitted!

[TOOLS.md](https://github.com/standard-fish/creative-racket-2022/blob/master/TOOLS.md) has lots more tools to try.

Best wishes 

Stephen

PS join the discussion on the new racket mailing list at https://racket.discourse.group/invites/YaJtZvy7g2 

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