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Thursday, July 30, 2009

National StrITwise® Challenge 2009

Anyone Interested? Details as follows:

National StrITwise® Challenge 2009
14th November 2009

Dear Sir/Madam

The National StrITwise® Challenge is HERE again ! We would like to invite your school to participate in the National StrITwise® Challenge 2009, jointly organized by the School of InfoComm Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Infocomm Development Authority (iDA) of Singapore. The National StrITwise® Challenge 2009 has the endorsements from Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore Computer Society (SCS), Media Development Authority (mDA) and Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). Other partners include Tabco Incorporated Pte Ltd and ASKnLearn Pte Ltd. This year, StrITwise® Challenge 2009 has also been listed as a Singapore 2010 CAN! Event. Singapore 2010 CAN! event is part of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010.

The objective of this competition is to develop the awareness and interest of IT amongst the youth in a fun and engaging way. Participating teams would have the opportunity to demonstrate their streetwise application of their IT skills. It provides an excellent opportunity for the schools to exhibit their competency in IT and also to trigger the student’s creative thinking. The National StrITwise® Challenge Trophies will be awarded to the schools of the top 3 teams. There are many attractive prizes to be awarded to the winners of this competition.

The StrITwise® Challenge requires participating teams to demonstrate their knowledge and strategic skills in three areas, namely:
1. StrITcombat : Robocode 2.0 (simple programming to create a virtual robot to battle online)
2. StrITd∑sign (Robodesign)(design of a virtual robot)
3. StrITsmart (activities on common infocomm & digital media knowledge)

Please refer to the following URL for Online registration which starts from 27th July 2009 and ends in 30th Sep 2009.
http://StrITwise.ict.np.edu.sg

You are encouraged to register your teams and attend the StrITwise® Challenge briefing, StrITcombat & StrITd∑sign workshops on 10th Sep 2009 (Thurs). The registration for the workshops will be on a First-come-First-serve basis as there are limited training places. We welcome your staff and students to attend this and other workshop sessions. For further details and clarifications, please send us an email at strITwise@np.edu.sg. You may also visit our website at http://StrITwise.ict.np.edu.sg for the latest news. We will be sending more updates to you through email.

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