[squeakland] Four year old and her older sister win a Squeak-based programming contest in Singapore

[Kim Rose]

Thanks, Harish for sharing with us!  This is very cool!

May we have your permission to include as part of our Squeakland blog  
or news?

regards to you,
Kim Rose

On Jul 20, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Harish Pillay 9v1hp wrote:

> I thought I should share this success story on this list.
>
> http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_405695.html
>
> I am a concil member of the Singapore IT Standards Committee[1] and an
> organizer of the
> code::XtremeApps[2] programming contest.  We have had a Junior
> Category since 2008
> and it is targeted at children 12 years and below.  Last year we used
> Alice and this year
> we used Squeak.  We had about 31 teams with about 80 children
> participate in this contest.
>
> The link above is about a two-person team (a 4 year old and her 8 year
> old sister) who
> wrote an application on healthy lifestyle focusing on anti-smoking  
> messages.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://www.itsc.org.sg
> [2] http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps2009.html
> -- 
> Harish Pillay h.pillay at ieee.org gpg id: 746809E3
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