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Winners announced for Flatten the Curve Hackathon Over 48 hours of intense, white knuckle hacking more than 2400 competitors from 10 different time zones formed teams and set out to solve some of the biggest challenges our nation and world face during the COVID-19 pandemic.

GitHub needs help nurturing the next generation of programmers Sam Hunt VP APAC of GitHub says, “code is the paintbrush of the 21st century”, and he wants people to get involved.

New approaches to teaching: How data is driving enhanced personalisation Teachers are now utilising student data to curate personalised lesson plans and assess student performance.

How Bree Hills revived Canberra Christian School When Bree Hills returned to Canberra to raise her son after a teaching and corporate career, the born and bred Canberran thought it would be good if he went to Canberra Christian School.

50 Osmo sets to be won Osmo which brings animation and coding to the ipad and fire tablet is giving away 50 Osmo sets free, yup free, beats an Easter egg, you just have to be a teacher

Government literacy program in remote schools has negative effect A $30-million Federal Government program designed to improve literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in very remote schools has failed.

Experts call for ATAR equity measures States and the Commonwealth have agreed that students will graduate with ATARs and the cohort will not have to repeat the year.

Skills and thrills encourages activities while at home Online camps via Skills and Thrills make sure that kids aren’t stuck in front of the telly or playing video games all day.

Australia’s first ever virtual national careers expo Torrens University Australia has joined forces with universities and higher education institutions to organise the nation’s first ever virtual careers expo.

State Library Victoria doors closed, resources very open Australia’s oldest public library is offering free access to a range of collections, eresources and online services while its physical doors are closed.

Activities from fintech experts downloadable The Girls4Tech™ program which has been designed to encourage girls into STEAM has made available a suite of educational resources built on global science and math standards.

Limbo for teachers causing a planning headache In the background of the ‘should we close schools?’ debate, teachers around Australia are frantically trying to prepare months of lesson plans for students at home. Whilst this limbo may be unavoidable, it is creating a headache for teachers