<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hey all! I am Sanjana Mundhra, a third year B.Tech student from The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur. Sugarizer has been providing some amusing learning activities for children and I hope to add mine to the list. What I came up with is a word search game with a few tweaks and variations. The game consists of letters of words placed in a grid. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the horizontally, vertically, or diagonally placed words hidden inside the box. Click and drag over a word to check it off the list. They are fun to play, but also educational- in fact, many teachers make use of them. This will encourage the children to: <ul> <li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(69,69,69)">Explore new topics. Many word search puzzles have a theme to which all the hidden words are related. Some of these are just for fun, but a topic can also introduce essential vocabulary that every child should possess.</li> <li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(69,69,69)"> Improve spelling. Young minds can learn new words and their spellings by intensively searching for them, letter by letter, in the puzzle. In fact they are rehearsing the spelling over and over in their minds as they look for the letters the word contains.</li> <li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(69,69,69)">Improve concentration. A valuable skill, concentration is required to successfully complete this puzzle. It encourages the brain to stay focused.</li> <li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(69,69,69)">Enhance visual acuity. Eyes that are trained regularly to look for small details will be stronger and more effective in many situations.</li> <li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(69,69,69)">Form strategies. Form various algorithms and strategies to search quickly for words without even realising it.</li> </ul> We can add diagonal & backward written words at higher difficulty levels. Often a list of the hidden words is provided, but more challenging puzzles may let the player figure them out. On a more advanced level, word searches are good ways to demonstrate the use of searching algorithms. Other variations include solving given math puzzles and searching for the answer in the grid. I am well acquainted with React js, a technology widely used in this organization and hope to contribute to it this summer as my GSOC 2019 project. After studying the present activities in Sugarizer, I feel its a place where learning meets fun and I think this activity will help take this trend onward. This is just a rough idea of my proposal, all reviews and suggestions are most welcome. Regards, Sanjana Mundhra</div></div>