Students were recently presented with certificates recognising their achievement in the OzCLO competition held earlier in the year. A total of 24 students from Years 8-10, represented Renmark High School, competing for the fourth year in a row in the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO). This year we entered six junior and senior 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.

Beja - spoken in Northern Sudan by nomadic tribes, distantly related to ancient Egyptian and Arabic.

Waanyi – An Australian Indigenous language spoken across the borders of the Northern Territory and Queensland

Waama - A Gur language of Benin in East Africa;

Ogham - Ancestral language of modern Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, dated at around 400 AD (Primitive Irish)

Sauk - An Algonquian language (currently located in central Oklahoma).

Teams collaborated effectively, sharing their deep thinking and reflections with each other to find solutions to each question.

Congratulations to our Renmark High School representatives who undertook the challenge over the course of three hours; Cooper B, Jorja K, Cameron D, Shikabah I, Emily T, Hadlee H, Charlize F, Georgia K, Maddison M, Emma S, Myles Johnson, Shamsher Connor C, Janis R, Justin S.

Special Congratulations to the Silver Medalist Team; Lachlan G, Tyrone A, Alex T, Sakina Q and Armandeep K and to the Year 8 Team competing for the first time; Anja T, Fletcher H, Stephen F and Myah Guy.

Jasmine Sotiroulis- OzCLO Coordinator

Certificate Winners

Silver Medialist Winning Team

Year 8 OzCLO Team