Congratulations to Josh Wynne, a 2nd Year student, who with a group from his coding club came second place in a competition organised for the 'Internet of Things 4 Food' conference in UCD at the end of March.
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Stratford College has been selected to be one of the pilot schools to be part of the phased introduction of Computer Science as a subject in the Leaving Certificate. Being a pilot school means that Leaving Certificate Computer Science will be introduced to Stratford College 5th Year students starting September 2018. They will sit the Leaving Certificate Computer Science online exam in June 2020. Computer Science will be the first online Leaving Certificate exam.
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This year marks the first year that Stratford College has entered students into the Bebras international computational thinking challenge. Administered by Maynooth University, each student completes 15 online interactive puzzles and computational challenges in 45 minutes. 3rd Year student Grace MacDonnell describes the quiz in more detail.
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The NCCA (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment) published the draft specification for the new Leaving Certificate subject of Computer Science in June 2017. It is currently in the consultation phase which is due to end on 22nd September 2017.
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A new and exciting partnership has just started between Stratford College TY Computer Studies class and 3rd Year Computer Science students from DIT Kevin Street. Over a series of five Friday mornings during February and March, a number of DIT Computer Science students are coming in to the TY Computer Studies class to mentor them in Python and Raspberry Pi. The DIT students are doing this as an elective module called "Computing in the Community".
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