[activities] National Computer Science School Challenge - starts next Monday

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Hi people,

While not strictly Open Source or Linux related hopefully those with kids
or know student age children will be interested in the below information;

Tim


> The NCSS Challenge is an online programming competition for school
> students that teaches students to code in Python while they compete. No
> previous programming experience is required, although for experienced
> students we also have intermediate and advanced streams. The competition is
> appropriate for students aged 11 to 18 (although this is not a strict rule,
> it depends on the student, contact us for more info).



The competition runs for 5 weeks, starting next Monday 5th August.
> Registration costs $20 (Australian) per student per stream. Registration
> gives students access to notes, questions, forums where they can interact
> with other competitors, and a messaging system where they can ask for help
> from our team of volunteer tutors. The competition is run by the University
> of Sydney, Australia.



Questions last year were on interesting topics ranging from bioinformatics
> to natural language processing, number theory and cryptography. It's a
> great opportunity to get kids engaged with programming and computational
> thinking.



For more information, see our website http://groklearning.com/challenge, or
> email [email protected]
>

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<div><br></div><div>While not strictly Open Source or Linux related hopeful=
ly those with kids or know student age children will be interested in the b=
elow information;</div>

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,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The NCSS Challenge is an on=
line programming competition for school students that teaches students to c=
ode in Python while they compete. No previous programming experience is req=
uired, although for experienced students we also have intermediate and adva=
nced streams. The competition is appropriate for students aged 11 to 18 (al=
though this is not a strict rule, it depends on the student, contact us for=
 more info).=C2=A0</blockquote>


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The competition runs for 5 weeks, starting next Monday 5th August. Registra=
tion costs $20 (Australian) per student per stream. Registration gives stud=
ents access to notes, questions, forums where they can interact with other =
competitors, and a messaging system where they can ask for help from our te=
am of volunteer tutors. The competition is run by the University of Sydney,=
 Australia.=C2=A0</blockquote>


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Questions last year were on interesting topics ranging from bioinformatics =
to natural language processing, number theory and cryptography. It&#39;s a =
great opportunity to get kids engaged with programming and computational th=
inking.=C2=A0</blockquote>


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For more information, see our website <a href=3D"http://groklearning.com/ch=
allenge" target=3D"_blank">http://groklearning.com/challenge</a>, or email =
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]=
du.au</a><br>

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