Youngsters excel at Computer Olympiad

Yaseen Mowzer, a Grade 9 learner at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town succeeded in beating all but one of the 4 747 entries in this year’s Standard Bank Programming Olympiad. He was beaten only by Gold Medal winner Guy Paterson-Jones, a Grade 12 learner at...

Girls make a mark in Computer Olympiad

Almost half of the more than 17 000 entrants for the 2013 Applications Olympiad – and four of the 11 finalists – were girls. The finalists were from only four provinces: KwaZulu-Natal; Eastern Cape; Western Cape; and Mpumalanga. “It is most unusual not to...