28 students from years 7 to 12 competed in the annual Australian Computational and Linguistics Competition, OzCLO on Wednesday March 5 at Renmark High School. One of the most academically challenging school-based competitions in Australia, our students worked collaboratively in their teams to decode some particularly difficult languages.

The five languages students analysed this year, included:

• The Devanagari script used to write Hindi, one of the official languages of India
• Proto-Basque, a now dead language but the ancestral language of Basque spoken today in northern Spain and southern France.
• Cherokee, an endangered language spoken by only 2000 of 450 000 citizens in the southeast of the US.
• Nancowry, an Austronesian language spoken by 950 people in the Nicobar Islands in India.
• Waanyi, an Australian language spoken by people in northwest Queensland and into the Northern Territory.

Congratulations to all of our participants representing Renmark High School for an intensive three hours online with their peers from around the nation. A special mention to Anja T, who has competed in the OzCLO since Year 8 and is the first student at Renmark High School to have participated for five consecutive years. In that time, she has analysed 25 languages. Bravo!

Jasmine Sotiroulis
French and Spanish Teacher
OzCLO Coordinator