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Students master science and computer skills

 

Students at St John The Baptist School showed their mastery of computer and science skills when they completed in the recent Australia Schools Computer Skills and Science Competitions.

The best performance came from two students who received Distinction Awards in each competition.

The modern curriculum required all students to develop computer skills in all subject areas at all ages.

The competition tests skills called for in the curriculum and also provides a range of questions to challenge the computer wizards.

Skills tested include using common operating systems, software and hardware.

At a higher level, it also tests internet skills, understanding communications and networks and programming and systems analysis.

The science competition was designed to cater for a range of student abilities and the test papers were in full colour with stimulating graphics.

Skills tested were observing and measuring, interpreting visual data, inferring, predicting and concluding, investigating, reasoning and problem solving.

This year, the Computer Skills Competition attracted more than 102,000 students from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

The Science Competition attracted over 450,000 students from the same regions.

The Australia Schools Competitions are an initiative of the Education Testing Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Press release, August 21