[Yr7-10it] VITTA 2007 Programming Awards - reminder for school registrations

[Caroline Bailey]

Hi everyone (and apologies for the cross-posts),

As you know, VITTA has launched the 2007 Programming Awards.

If you want to participate get your school registration in soon.  Please note there are new categories this year, including for primary, girls and a number of different programming languages.

2007 categories are:

Visual Basic.Net Open Challenge - Boys section

Visual Basic.Net Open Challenge - Girls section

Python Open Challenge - Boys section

Python Open Challenge - Girls section

GameMaker Challenge - Primary Boys section

GameMaker Challenge - Primary Girls section

GameMaker Challenge - Secondary Boys section

GameMaker Challenge - Secondary Girls section

The awards are being supported by the Australian Computer Society
(ACS) and The Victorian Government, as well as The Cancer Council of
Victoria - SunSmart Program, Microsoft, Open Source Victoria (OCV) and the
ASISTM cluster of Victoria. 

Problems have now been posted at the official VITTA Programming Awards 2007
web site, which also includes a timeline, registration forms and other useful information.

http://progawards.vitta.org.au/

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Regards, Caroline 

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Caroline Bailey
Professional Learning Coordinator (4 days per week)
VITTA - Victorian IT Teachers' Association
T: +61 3 9495 6836 F: +61 3 9495 6834
E: caroline at vitta.org.au W: www.vitta.org.au
Suite 202, 134-136 Cambridge St
Collingwood, VIC, 3066, Australia

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  * Thu 30 Aug  - Ivanhoe Grammar - James Farmer keynote and various presenters 
  * Wed 12 Sept - Westall Secondary College - Advanced Game Maker
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