This code challenge? Absolutely legendary! We introduced a new adult age category, and the creativity it unleashed was off the charts. From every corner of the world, incredible projects came in — and now, it’s winner reveal time

Here's the prompt students were given:

This season, The Planet Fiero Art Institute invites you to join an extraordinary journey of art and creativity! Your challenge is to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to design a digital art gallery that showcases the colorful stars, planets, moons, and other celestial bodies of our solar system and galaxy..

And here are the winners!

8-12 Year Old Category

First Place: "Cosmic Gallery"

Creator: mkanabar18

Organization: Markham Village Branch, Markham Public Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/mkanabar18/labor-education-free

Second Place: "The Digital Galaxy of Space Art"

Creator: Nihal4ever

From the Creator:

"I live in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, which has a museum with interactive exhibitions. I added zoom animations to the pictures because of this, and solved a tricky challenge coding yellow section lines. A school lesson inspired me to try this, and I love how clicking a picture makes it pop up with a blurred background. I’m thankful to my parents for their support."

Organization: Upper Hutt City Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/Nihal4ever/tiny-it-somehow

Third Place: "A Cosmic Art Gallery"

Creator: MJJohnson

From the Creator:

"I enjoyed coding and looking up the pictures for this project!"

Organization: Nicholas P Sims Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/MJJohnson/eager-smile-four

13-18 Year Old Category

First Place: "A Cosmic Gallery: Our Solar System and Beyond"

Creator: Flk5798

From the Creator:

"For my project, I was inspired by NASA's "Eyes on the Solar System" simulation with live 3D planets. I thought that it really shouldn't be all that difficult to put a flat texture map onto a sphere, but I was quite wrong. I encountered a lot of errors, first with not being able to source texture maps from online or even files in the project itself, rendering the unintentionally cylindrical textures as yellow, gray, and even rainbow! Fortunately, the planets eventually started rendering correctly after a few fixes, so all that was left was the best part of the challenge: adding some satisfying transition effects and hover effects and then playing around with the project."

Organization: Ridgewood, Queens Public Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/Flk5798/cause-consist-dawn

Second Place: "Stellar Sights"

Creator: Cat-Coder

From the Creator:

"I was honestly super surprised when I heard I made the top three for this round, all the other submissions are so amazing!! This project was a bit of a challenge for me since I'm really not into making websites- more into code block games. However, it was super fun to learn different ways to use CSS to make the website pop and look awesome!! My advice for anyone struggling or not wanting to try and learn different code languages is to just make sure you're having fun"

Organization: Renfrew Public Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/Cat-Coder/uncle-final-story

Third Place: "Welcome to Space"

Creator: Galaxygames73

From the Creator:

"probably the fact that I learnt html whilst making it and was really hoping I got 3rd specially since I need a new keyboard. I also faced a challenge when making the scrolling image creation. :D"

Organization: Warrnambool Library

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/Galaxygames73/living-by-apartment

19+ Year Old Category

First Place: "Celestial Art Gallery"

Creator: themountaineer

Organization: Robbinsville Branch, Mercer County Library System

Project Link: app.fierocode.com/projects/code-scripts/themountaineer/its-include-everyone

From start to finish, you brought the brilliance — thank you for making it epic!

Our next coding contest starts Oct. 1 and runs until Nov. 30!  It's going to be create a video game that guides the robots on their quest to reignite the light of Planet Fiero!

Here are the details and marketing materials for that competition, for all of our library partners.