[Year 12 IT Apps] Award to Caroline Chisholm Catholic College

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Dear colleagues
 
Apologies for the cross postings.
 
I think it is important that we celebrate achievements, and congratulations are in order to a team of ICT students from Caroline Chisholm Catholic College. Below is an extract from the UNESCO ICT in Education website regarding the winning teams in the Young Aus-Innovators National ICT Prize. 
 

NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence and the Australian Computer Society (ACS) have awarded the inaugural Young Aus-Innovators National ICT Prize to a team of high school students from Newington College in New South Wales. The winning team of Harrison Collin, Brenton Curko, Shannon Kwan and Chao Man will receive a cash prize of $2,500 and a two-week internship at NICTA during the school holidays.

The team's project proposal focused on improving household security standards. The students now have the opportunity to further improve their project at NICTA where a mentor will oversee their next steps.

The second prize of $1,500 was won by a team of students from Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Victoria. The third prize of $1,000 was won by a team of students from Patrician Brothers College Blacktown in New South Wales. A team of students from North Sydney Girls High School in New South Wales was also recognised with a Highly Commended award.

"The standard of entries was very high," said NICTA's Director of Education, Dr Tim Hesketh. "I was encouraged by the variety of concepts the students presented, from sophisticated animation proposals and online games based on Arduino board programming, to the Bluetooth communications proposal that won first place."

Regards

Paula


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