[squeakland] Four year old and her older sister win a Squeak-based programming contest in Singapore

[stéphane ducasse]

Excellent. This is why etoy is cool!


>> I thought I should share this success story on this list.
>>
>> http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_405695.html
>>
>> I am a concil member of the Singapore IT Standards Committee[1] and  
>> an
>> organizer of the
>> code::XtremeApps[2] programming contest.  We have had a Junior
>> Category since 2008
>> and it is targeted at children 12 years and below.  Last year we used
>> Alice and this year
>> we used Squeak.  We had about 31 teams with about 80 children
>> participate in this contest.
>>
>> The link above is about a two-person team (a 4 year old and her 8  
>> year
>> old sister) who
>> wrote an application on healthy lifestyle focusing on anti-smoking  
>> messages.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> [1] http://www.itsc.org.sg
>> [2] http://www.itsc.org.sg/codeXtremeApps2009.html
>> --