INTENSIVE COMPETITION TRAINING
Students who perform well in term lessons may be invited to join competition teams and enrol in the intensive competition training courses. These courses are designed to ensure that students are able to compete in high-level competitions.
Training programs run throughout a competition season with teams attending one to two training sessions per week.
VEX IQ ROBOTICS
The intensive competition training course is for team members who display an outstanding level of achievement in the VEX IQ course and are selected to join the competition team.
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This training course allows competition team members to meet up together to train and develop their skills for upcoming competitions.
VEX V5 ROBOTICS
Like the VEX IQ intensive competition training course, this is for members in the VEX V5 Pro course who are selected to join the competition team to compete with teams worldwide.
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This training course allows competition team members to meet up together to train and develop their skills for upcoming competitions.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING CHALLENGE (OUCC)
The OUCC is a two-round online competition that uses students' skills further to produce programmed solutions to computational thinking problems.
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Students in this training program solve a variety of complex programs and learn how to solve difficult problems and tricks to help save time with completing challenges.
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Students in junior programs will primarily learn the blockly language which is used in the competition whilst senior students will learn both blockly and Python 3 to be able to solve the more difficult problems.
AUSTRALIAN INFORMATICS OLYMPIAD (AIO)
In the AIO, students write short computer programs to solve six problems that vary in difficulty. The competition does not test computer literacy or knowledge but is focused on problem solving through programming skills.
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Students in this program use Python 3 to learn how to solve a variety of complex and difficult challenges to try to achieve outstanding results in the AIO competition.
NASA SPACE STATION PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE
The NASA Space Station Robotics Programming Challenge is run by NASA to help automate tasks for astronauts in space.
Students will use Java to create Android applications for a robot in the International Space Station to perform a variety of tasks whilst competing with teams from around the world.