Eligibility
Each year NCSS is open to all students in Australia entering Year 12 in the year running, but also considers applications from particularly gifted students entering Year 11. The NCSS program assumes no previous programming or web design experience, and is designed to suit a wide range of abilities and experience. Some students who have participated in the program are invited back the following year and are known internally as "returners".
2012 saw the first student from the Northern Territory.
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