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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial;">Young ICT Explorers (YICTE)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Young ICT Explorers is a technology competition for primary and secondary students to submit their best ICT project. This competition is sponsored by SAP, Group X, NICTA and Swinburne University.
It aims to inspire creativity and innovation while encouraging students to consider a career in ICT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">The competition enables students to enter a technology related project they have been working in class. The competition is deliberately broad to encourage as much creativity and innovation
as possible. All types of projects are welcome provided they have a clear link to technology. Students have complete control of their ideas, enabling them to design projects they want to see brought to life. (Guidelines can be found in the Information pack
- http://www.youngictexplorers.net.au/cms/images/2014_information_pack.pdf). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">At the judging event – which will be held at Swinburne University on Saturday 23<sup>rd</sup> August, students have the opportunity to present their project to a judging panel of academics
and industry professionals for the chance to win great prizes and receive feedback from the ICT community. Each project is assessed on creativity, uniqueness, quality, level of difficulty and project documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">In the past students have submitted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Websites<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Digital media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Software &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Mobile phone applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">However, other products would also be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">The Competition is open to all students in Years 3 – 12. Students can compete individually or in teams of up to 4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">I have provided a link with further information about YICTE- <a href="http://youngictexplorers.net.au/cms/" style="color: purple;">http://youngictexplorers.net.au/cms/</a><u><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial;">Registration of Interest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">School Registrations are open until May 26th, where we ask you to register your Schools interest. The Registration Page can be found at: https://www.conftool.pro/youngictexplorers2014/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial;">Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Project submissions are to be submitted online by the 7th July. If the project is accepted, the students will be invited to the judging event at Swinburne University on the 23<sup>rd</sup> of
August 2014.<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">If you would like to find out how you and your students can get involved please feel free to contact Travis Joy (<a href="mailto:travis.joy@sap.com" style="color: purple;">travis.joy@sap.com</a>)
or Dr Therese Keane (<a href="mailto:tkeane@swin.edu.au" style="color: purple;">tkeane@swin.edu.au</a>) for more information. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">There is no cost associated with this competition.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial;">Therese</span></p>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dr Therese Keane</span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Lecturer in ICT Skills Development</span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Room: TD323</span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Phone: (+613) 9214 8579 </span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Fax: (+613) 9819 0823</span></font><br>
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<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Twitter: #SwinEdTech</span></font><br>
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<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Swinburne University, </span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">PO Box 218 Hawthorn, </span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Victoria 3122 AUSTRALIA</span></font></div>
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