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

> 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
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>> 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
>> --

> regards to you,
> Kim Rose
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Harish Pillay 9v1hp wrote:
>
>> 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
>> --