Australasian Computing Competition 2007

Year 8, 9 and 10 students from Keebra demonstrated their outstanding mastery of computer skills when they participated in the recent Australasian Schools Computer Skills Competition.The International competition was conducted across Australia and twelve other countries. Indeed there are over 1.7 million entries worldwide.

The Competition included tasks which assessed students’ skill in using operating systems, common software, the Internet, understanding networks and programming and system analysis.

The best achievement came from Jack Reichelt who received a High Distinction ranking his performance in the top 1% of entrants in Australia. Congratulations must also go to Michael Lerro, Alexandra Bose, Caitlin Armstrong, Tony Bose and Matthew Beddow who received Distinction Awards and achieved within the top 10% in Australasia.

Twelve other students also received credit certificates. These were awarded to Stephanie Parsons, Daniel Moffat, Ellex Monteith, Ashleigh Peters, Rebecca Healey, Lisa Barrett, Michelle Stone, Jasper Lo, Dijana Kozul, Mitchell Jenks, Scarlett Allen and Peter Reichelt.

Congratulations to all students and well done!

Technology One Website Queensland Champions

Congratulations to our team of Caitlin Armstrong , Alexandra Bose, Tony Bose and Jack Reichelt who have just won the Technology One Website competition. For the past year these budding software engineers have designed and developed a website for the Queensland Epilepsy Association to assist us in understanding and learning more about epilepsy. Their efforts are quite remarkable considering these talented Year 8 and 9 Plus pathway students were competing against senior students form some of Queensland’s leading private schools. Clearly the addition of our online games and quizzes coupled with Flash presentation and an attractive design were too much for other schools to compete with. For their efforts they have won individual $150 Coles Myers Vouchers, a new PC for the school, $2000 worth of books for the schools and their own domain name!

Check out their site at
www.keebparkshs.eq.edu.au/ epilepsy/EpiGleamAus/index.html

Sharemarket Investor hits the big time!

Each year, students enter into the Australian Stock Exchange game, where they use $50 000 imaginary funds and invest it into real companies.

The game teaches students how market forces affect the prices of shares, and how quickly their money can be gobbled up with brokerage fees.

Since the game began, Shane’s partners left the subject, and Shane made the complex investment decisions on his own.

As the game finished, we were delighted to see Shane’s investments have earned him the ranking of 82 from 2914 Queensland teams. More impressively, he ranked 443 out of just under 20 000 competitors in the National level. This is the first time our students have attained such a high ranking within the state.

We can’t wait until next year’s game, so we can get some investment tips of our own from him. Congratulations, Shane.

Australasian Financial Literacy Assessment

Students from Keebra Park demonstrated their outstanding level of awareness, understanding and skill recently when they participated in the 2006 Australian Financial Literacy Assessment.

More than 43000 year 8 and 9 students throughout Australia competed in this challenge.

Keebra is excited to announce the outstanding results of 10 Distinctions and 12 Credits. Conragtulations to Mark Ballantyne, Jonas Gacitua-Solari, Dean Parata
Brayden Price, John Schmidt, Caitlin Armstrong, Alexandra Bose, Stephanie Parsons,
Jack Reichelt and Andrew Storey on their distinctions.

Well done Year 9 and 10 Business Education students and staff!