3rd D I V I S I O N

TECHNOLYMPICS
(A Showcase of Marketable Products and Performances)
COMPONENT AREA

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

YEAR LEVEL

ANY YEAR LEVEL

EVENT PACKAGE

WEB PAGE DESIGNING

NO. OF PARTICIPANT(S)
TIME ALLOTMENT

ONE (1)

DESCRIPTION/USE

CRITERIA FOR
ASSESSMENT

THREE (4) HOURS

Websites are used to publish information, advertise and sell products. Good
navigation gets you where you want to go quickly and offers easy access to
the breath and depth of the sites content.
Criteria
Originality & Creativity of design/ideas/
Graphics/presentation/harmony and balance
Combination of materials
Additional use
Methods/Workmanship/Hyperlink
Use of tools, materials & equipment
Safety work habits & housekeeping
Functionality
Affordability
Visual appeal
Wise use of time/Speed
Fluency of oral communication
Flow of thoughts

Total:

Percentage
30

30

20
10
10

100%

I. Skills Exhibition Proper

a.

The Event Administrators and their secretaries, technical committee and judges, should be in the venue sixty (60) minutes
ahead of the event schedule.
b. Event materials, supplies, tools, equipment and other things needed for the venue will be made ready by the Event
Administrator sixty (60) minutes before the event schedule.
c. Checking of laptop that will be used in the event will start sixty (60) minutes before the event starts. This will be done by the
Event administrator and respective coach of the participating school. Remember that the laptop must be newly formatted to
ensure that no html files and images are stored on it. Make sure also that all the needed software are installed properly to
avoid delay of starting the event.
d. All participants should be at the designated venue thirty (30) minutes before the event starts. Late participants without valid
reasons shall be disqualified.
e. A contestant will be given assigned place based on the numbering set on the registration. Contestant must proceed to his/her
laptop and setup their food and materials. Setting up of their extension cords, equipment, and tools should be done during
this time.
f. Briefing of participants will be done fifteen (15) minutes before the scheduled event.
g. The Event Secretary will give the signal for the event to begin. Once the event has been started, the coaches, teachers,
delegates are no longer allowed to talk to the participants to give them full concentration in their work.
h. Only the Event Administrator, Secretary, technical, judges, official photographer and participants are allowed in the venue.
i. No questions shall be entertained during the contest proper except clarifications and points of order. All clarifications and
points of order will be directed to the Event Administrator.
j. Should there be any irregularities found during the event, the Event Administrator, in consultation with the Board of Judges,
may suspend the conduct of the specific skill exhibition if justified and refer the matter to the attention of the Technical and
evaluation Committee for appropriate action.
k. Borrowing of materials, tools, supplies during the event is not allowed.
l. A period of four (4) hours is given to finish the website.
m. Use of any built-in template, template wizard, or template from the internet or any other source is not permitted, and is
considered cheating.
n. Contestant may edit and/or enhance the available images given using Adobe Photoshop and use them in the website. Not
all images given are required to use.
o. Once finished, contestants then raise his/her hand and the completion time is taken for record purposes. Contestant will then
be queued to the website presentation.
p. No contestant is allowed to edit his/her website once he/she was declared done.

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Decision of the Board of Judges is final.

In case of ties, a tie breaking activity or task will be administered by the Board of Judges.
In case of hardware, software and other incidental problems that may occur during the contest proper, an extended time will
be given to the contestant to compensate for the delay.

Event Materials, Tools and

Equipment

Contestants

Host School

Organizers

A. Supplies and Materials

Hardware

Paper or pen
letter size bond paper

B. Tools and Equipment

Hardware

Chairs and Tables

Timer
projector

Newly Formatted Laptop

Extension cords

Sofware
Notepad ++ text editor
Adobe Photoshop CS4/CS5
Google Chrome or Firefox Web
Browser or Internet Explorer

II.

Scope: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
A. Competitors must produce a minimum of 3 pages of website based on the competition theme:
Technolympics: A Showcase of Marketable Products and Performances
B. The website may be composed of text and images. No scripting is allowed.

III.

Design Guidelines
A. Layout. Create well-designed web pages. Place important items consistently and establish level of importance
B. Navigation and Structure. Website must have suitable structure and easy to navigate. If possible place primary
navigation menu in the left panel. Use of frames is strongly not recommended.
C. Menu. Provide tabs, buttons, etc. referencing each page/content/event and when clicked on shows the specific
page/event/content and allows navigation within its content.
D. Main Page Area. The area where the main event will appear.

IV.

Standard Compliance
A. All html pages must have the .html extension and not the .htm extension.
B. The homepage must be called index.html.
C. External CSS must be called style.css.
D. All images must be placed in a folder called images.
E. HTML opening tags (i.e. <p>) must have a closing tag (i.e. </p>).
F. Tags that doesnt have a closing tag should include a space and slash (i.e. <br />).
G. Ensure tags are in lower case.
H. Web pages must be fully functional in the Google Chrome, Firefox web browser and Internet Explorer.

NOTE:

a. All inputs shall be endorsed to the Secretariat by the Event Administrator

b. All endorsed outputs shall be displayed unitl the duration of the event.