Girls excel in programming There has never been a more exciting time to be a girl interested in IT. Two year nine students from Dimbulah State School recently attended a one day, hands-on programming workshop for girls. Held in Cairns, The Girls’ Programming Network (GPN) is an extra-curricular program run by girls, for girls, where they have the opportunity to develop their own games, learn about digital media, sound, image and video manipulation and even create smart phone applications. Tahnie Christensen and Jezabel Pajor (pictured) used a program called Python programming language to create a game of Scissors, Paper, Rock, which allowed a human to play five games of Scissors, Paper, Rock against a computer.
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“It was a great learning experience and we developed a better understanding of what programming is and how it works,” said Jezabel. “Both Tahnie and I had an awesome time and we even featured in the TV news. “There might be a term two workshop and we encourage all girls in Year 7-10 to check it out. “The people were friendly and the activities were fun.” The GPN program is targeted at high school girls interested in IT, particularly those interested in learning to program or improving their software development skills. It advances their knowledge and promotes gender equality for girls interested in IT, program and software development
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FIVE Mareeba school students received an extra bonus last week after shopping locally for their back to school supplies. Narissa Musso, Sunnie Fraser, Hely Balle, Rhys
Malfitana (pictured above) and Toby Lacey (pictured left) were the five lucky winners of an Android 7 inch Tablet PC valued at $139 from O’Donnells Office Power in Mareeba.
CLUB NEWS With Mareeba Lions Brilliant, talented, confident; just a few ways to describe the six contestants in the Mareeba Lions Youth of the Year competition 2017. In the end there is only one winner but any one of these your adults would be worthy of the title. Mareeba State High School student Mateen Latif was crowned champion and went on to represent Mareeba at the zone final held in Atherton, where he was also successful and now progresses to the District final. What a wonderful achievement. On Clean up Australia Day Mareeba lions descended on Bunny Seary Lookout for stage one clean-up of an ambitious beautification project of the site. Bunny Seary was a long term resident of Mareeba, a Councillor, and war veteran. It is fitting that the vantage point named in his honour be developed to the extent that it may be used by the community to enjoy some of the best
Rubbish removed from the Bunny Seary Lookout.
views around Mareeba. Mareeba Lions are working on a plan in conjunction with Mareeba Shire to achieve these goals. Regrettably some clearly do not respect the site and have used it as a tip, as evidenced by the amount of rubbish removed by Lions. Although membership of Lions is by invitation you are invited to enquire about joining this great international humanitarian organisation. It is not hard to become a
Lion. Fellowship, Good times, Meeting people, Building lasting friendships, Service to the community, Learning new skills, Leadership and personal development - these are some of the reasons we are the Lions. Lions meet in Mareeba at the Mareeba RSL at 6.30 pm on the first and third Wednesday of the month. Check us out at http://mareeba.qld.lions.org.au
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