OZCLO
OzCLO 2020
Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad
On Wednesday 4th March, 16 students from Years 9 to 11 competed for the third year in a row in the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzClo).
This year we entered five junior teams in the first round competition across South Australia.
The OzCLO contest is held in two rounds, with the first round; a three-hour competition held at exactly the same time online nation-wide. Participants work in teams of four on a range of language analysis problems.
This year our students had to decode five languages unfamiliar to all of them. These languages included; Cuneiform, the oldest known writing system dating back to 3400 BC, which was invented in Babylon (modern Iraq), Dutch, Ligurian (a descendent of Latin and still spoken by 500 000 people in Northern Italy), Kolyma Yukaghir, a dying language with only five speakers remaining and Sámi, spoken by around 20 000 people in Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. Teams collaborated effectively, sharing their deep thinking and reflections with each other to find solutions to each question. Peculiarities were discovered about other languages, including one in which small accents or marks completely changed the meaning of a word.
Congratulations to our Renmark High School representatives who undertook the challenge over the course of three hours; Lachlan G, Tyrone A, Alex T, Kelly W, Jorja K, Sakina Q, Wyatt N, Armandeep K, Kalyssa P, Michelle M, Tom Y, Connor S, Cooper M, Hadlee H, Charlize F, Georgia K, Maddy M, Ashlee L, Emma S, Chloe B.
Jasmine Sotiroulis- OzCLO Coordinator
