Search to find Ireland’s Top Young Problem-Solvers at All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad Finals

Posted Fri, 22/03/2013 - 16:45 by lgrehan
Competitors at the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad Finals 2013

The concluding stage of the search to find Ireland’s top young decoder has taken place at the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) Finals at Dublin City University. The Olympiad, run by the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), challenges secondary school students to apply logic and reasoning skills to solve complex language puzzles in unfamiliar languages. The contest aims to inspire the next generation of multilingual technology graduates, who possess a powerful blend of language competency and problem-solving expertise.

Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC)

Posted Fri, 08/03/2013 - 18:10 by gconway
IrlCollegiate Competition

The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) is coming up on the 23rd of March. Working in teams of three, with one computer, you solve as many of the 8 given problems as possible.

The contest is held down in UCC (Cork). Redbrick are covering entrance costs, a hostel for the weekend and usually the bus (we go down on the Friday evening and come back Sunday midday) for any team interested.

If you aren't a Redbrick member it's only €2 and you can join anytime.

If you are interested let

know and we'll add you to the list. If you can't find or fill a team let us know and we'll pair someone up.

All Ireland Programming Olympiad (AIPO) 2013 Winners

Posted Tue, 26/02/2013 - 18:28 by gconway
Julia Davenport (CEO Fidelity Investments) & Caelen Feller (Jnr Gold Medalist)
Julia Davenport (CEO Fidelity Investments) & Caelen Feller (Jnr Gold Medalist)

Congratulations to the Medallists of the 2013 AIPO held in the School of Computing, DCU on Saturday 23rd February and well done to everyone who got to the Finals.

From a total of 33 submissions for the preliminary round problems, we had 20 finalists in DCU on Saturday. The winners were:

Senior:

Gold - Daniel Mulcahy - Gonzaga College, Dublin
Silver - Abdullah Mohammad - Carrigaline Community School, Cork
Bronze - Áron Hoffmann - Luttrellstown Community College, Dublin

Junior (under 15yrs):

Gold - Caelen Feller - Gaelcholáiste Choilm, Ballincollig, Cork
Silver - Harvey Conniffe - Kilmacanogue National School, Wicklow
Bronze - Shane Buckley - St. Mary's College, Rathmines, Dublin

Many thanks to our sponsors Fidelity Investments and DCU. For more photos, please visit http://www.computing.dcu.ie/image

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Secondary Schools Get Involved in Computing

Posted Tue, 22/01/2013 - 16:25 by cstears
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The School of Computing in conjunction with CNGL for the eighth year in a row, are running their successful ComputeTY programme for Transition year students.  The programme has run very successfully over the years, and has managed to directly recruit new students into the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.  

This year the programme takes place over a three week period in January and February 2013, with over 150 students attending each week. The course structure is divided into two streams, Stream 1 - web design and Stream 2 - an introduction to programming.  The overall content offers a broad range of computing skills from the creative aspect of website design to the problem solving challenges of the programming stream.

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