Activities
In previous years, groups have developed many applications including search engines, wikis, forums, social networks and Content Management Systems.
Students also have the opportunity to participate in networked games, sport and career talk sessions.
As of 2008, the embedded systems course has been running at the school at the same time. This stream, instead of programming a website type system in python, will instead program a robot/microproccessor in the Arduino (similar to C) Language. As of 2012, the embedded systems course was discontinued.
The two streams in the school are referred to as the 'embedded' stream and the 'python' stream.
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