Renmark High School competed in the annual Australian Computational and Linguistics Competition held early in the year. With the highest ever number of competitors, we entered 8 teams of students from Years 7 to 12, a total of 37 students.

Languages students needed to decode with in 2023 included;

• The ancient Umbrian language, which is closely related to Latin.
• The Permyak language which is spoken by around 60,000 people in the north-eastern part of European Russia. It belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family, along with Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and other languages, also mostly spoken in what is now Russia.
• The Mambiloid language, Nizaa with approximately 10,000 speakers in Cameroun.
• Tidore is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia, spoken by about 30,000 people. It is centred on the island of the same name, but it is also spoken in some neighbouring areas.
• The Australian language, Lardil, spoken on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off North Queensland

Once again, the only regional school competing, our top two teams missed out on making it to the national round by a score of 0.5%!

Jasmine Sotiroulis
OzCLO Coordinator