Digital Technologies

NCSS Challenge

This year 167 St Bede’s students from Year 7, 8 and 9 put their coding skills to the test in the NCSS Challenge. The NCSS Challenge is run for high school students by the Australian Computing Academy at the University of Sydney. Our students learnt how to program in Python while competing with students from around the world. Each week for 5 weeks, a set of Python teaching resources were distributed to participants together with a set of questions testing this material. Participants submit their solutions to the Challenge website where they were automatically marked.

We had 154 students, from our St Bede’s Code Club and Year 8 STEM classes, entered in the Beginners stream, which was designed for students with no prior experience at programming.

We also had 13 students from our Code Club entered in the Intermediate stream. It was designed for students who have had some other prior programming experience.

Below is a list of our high achievers and their certificate level. Perfection was awarded to a student with a perfect score.

Mr Mark Comas

Digital Learning Leader