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Tech education helps close cyber security skills gap
Close to 800 Sydney Catholic Schools students have gained new technology skills thanks to a coding challenge geared towards filling a critical cyber security skills shortage in Australia. Marist College Eastwood accounted for a record 560 of the 794 students from Sydney Catholic schools who enrolled in this year’s Cyber Live challenge. Cyber Live is one of four international coding-based challenges, run by technology education charity Grok Academy, that Year 7 to 10 students from Marist College take part in each year. Sarah Hasman, the college’s Assistant Technological and applied studies (TAS) Coordinator, said the challenge teaches students valuable...
Portrait turns heads at Art Gallery of NSW
Winning her age category in Sydney Catholic Schools’ inaugural Portrait Prize was just the beginning for Tatum O’Connor. The Mount St Joseph Milperra student’s portrait of her niece is now a finalist in the Young Archie competition, run by the Art Gallery of NSW. Winners will be announced this Saturday, 18 June. Tatum said she was elated to see her work on display at the Art Gallery of NSW. “I have no words to even begin to describe my excitement and joy at being a finalist,” she said. Chosen from a field of more than 2,400 entries her gouache...
Record-breaker Nathan takes his shot
One to watch: Marist College Eastwood student Nathan Barbara has set a new Australian record in the U17 Men’s Para Shot Put at the 2022 Australian Track and Field Championships.
