Boishaaier 2018

Programming Olympiad Back:

Auden Jacobs, Daniël de Waal, Francois du Toit, Philip Kotze, Josh Steenkamp, Lucas Slier, Ziaan van Zyl, Dian Jacobs, Neil Bekker, Sebastian Kirstein, Bayand Kula Middle: Barry Keet, Gary Creamer, David Sinclair, Pieter Slabbert, Giovanni Pepe, Bernabé de la Bat, Jared Truter, Sean Tolken, Rossouw Erwee, Alex Kruger, Divan van der Bank, Joshua du Toit, Emile Kellerman, Liam Relling, Sean Muller Front: Mika-Calvin Schultz, Alexander Wynne, Jason Chait, Faizal Saban, Wade Solomon, mnr. J Louw, Markus Babl, Ryan Bradbury, Julian Munz, Sunin Kim, Jodi Jefferies

Programming Olympiad

The Programming Olympiad was held 13-17 August. This Olympiad consists out of three rounds, of which the first two rounds are held at the participating schools. In the first round learners may use programming languages like Python, Java, Delphi, Scratch or C++ to answer the set problems. In the second round the programming languages are

restricted to only learners who achieved good marks in the first round. The final round is restricted to the top 10 in the country. Paarl Boys’ High had 47 boys participating in the first round and 13 went through to the second round which was held on Wednesday 5 September. The boys who went through to the second round are Sean Tolken, Keith Jonker,

Alexander Kruger, Ryan Bradbury, Jason Chait, Julian Munz, Francois du Toit, Divan van der Bank, Sebastian Welgemoed, Pieter Slabbert, Lucas Meyer, Neil Bekker and Jodi Jefferies. This Olympiad helps the learners to develop sound problem-solving techniques and to solve industry-related problems.

BOISHAAIER 2018 / Kultuur / Culture

Talent Search Olympiad The Talent Search Olympiad was held at Paarl Boys’ High on 6 March. In this Olympiad skills of computational thinking are tested, which are skills used in subjects like Mathematics, Science, IT and CAT. The goal of this Olympiad is to identify learners with these skills and give all of them the opportunity to improve and develop their skills. There were 43 Grade 10 and 11 learners who took part in the Senior division and 13 Grade 12s in the Elite division of the talent search.

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