OzCLO 2018 COMPETITION
The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) is a contest for high school students. It challenges them to develop their own strategies for solving problems in real languages. The program is designed for high school students from Years 9 to 12. Please find below a brief report from our LOTE Prefect on MLMC's participation this year's competition.
Talia Colombani - LOTE Prefect 2018
On Wednesday 7 of March the OzClo competition was held involving five teams of four students from across Years 9 to 12 .The OzClo competition is a language competition but you don’t need to speak a second language to do it. We had three training sessions before the competition. The competition involves using problem solving skills on language based questions. The languages were either uncommonly spoken or ancient languages. We were given clues and had to figure out the answer to the problem. For example the problem they may give you is ‘I like movies’ and ‘you watch sport’ in a foreign language. Then as a team, you have to figure out how to say ‘You like sport’ from this information.
On the day, we were given two hours in our groups to finish seven different language problems which had multiple questions inside them. It was super challenging and we had to work hard and efficiently to get it done. It was a fun experience to be apart of. It helped to build our skills in teamwork and problem solving. It was an interesting experience to learn about different languages, how they are put together, how complex some languages are and how different some languages are to our own.
A big thanks goes to Mr Modini, Miss Mckenzie and Mrs Gail Preston for running the training sessions and allowing us to be apart of this amazing competition.
