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Subject Blogs, Computer Science / 30 March 2022

5th Year Computer Science student competes in Bebras National Finals

Congratulations to 5th Year Computer Science student, Jed, who was invited to compete in the Bebras National Finals, held online, on Thursday 24th March. Over 8000 students competed in the first round of the competition, 300 students were invited to the Finals.

TY's participate in Trinity College Computer Science research project: Pytch.org

Since January, TY students have been transitioning from coding in Scratch to coding in Python in Computer Studies classes. The TY's were invited to participate in a Trinity College Dublin Computer Science research project using a learning tool called pytch.org. This tool is purposely built to help students move from coding in Scratch to coding in Python.

TY Business students runners up in LEO SEP Dublin City Finals

Congratulations to the TY Business students - Luke Higgins, Yoan Perenovski, Cassie Murphy and Brendan Doorley - who not only reached the second stage of the LEO Student Enterprise Programme Dublin City Finals, but came second place with their project 'Teacher Tower' on Thursday, 24th March.

Stratford focus on understanding Big Data for Safer Internet Day: 8th February 2022

Big Data - this year in Computer Studies classes all students from 1st year to 6th Year learned to understand what information is gathered by companies and organisations.

All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) 2022 - Stratford enter for the first time

For the first-time ever students from Stratford College participated in the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO). On Thursday, 27th January our 5th Year students worked through some really tough linguistic, logic and language problems.

5th Year Computer Science student wins two awards at BTYSTE 2022 for his advanced quantum computing project!

Massive congratulations to Ayush Tambde, 5th Year Computer Science student, for winning two awards (for a second year in a row!) at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2022 with his project called "A System For The Development And Execution Of Hybrid Classical/Quantum Tasks".

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