<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">CS4HS in Sydney was wonderful. Why not read the</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><a class="ot-hashtag" href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23Storify" tabindex="-1" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;color:rgb(51,102,204)!important;text-decoration:none">#Storify</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">story that I just wrote. I have a few more pictures and references to add but it is nearly finished. Details and link below. Special thank you to Nicky Ringland and Dr James Curran for helping organise this and inviting me to participate.</span><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">I enjoyed the lectures, hands on laboratory sessions. There was plenty of time between the different</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><a class="ot-hashtag" href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23CS4HS" tabindex="-1" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;color:rgb(51,102,204)!important;text-decoration:none">#CS4HS</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">sessions to get to know the different people such as</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><span class="proflinkWrapper" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">+</span><a href="https://plus.google.com/116235565758589912335" class="proflink" tabindex="-1" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,204)!important;text-decoration:none">Liz Hemmings</a></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">,</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><span class="proflinkWrapper" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">+</span><a href="https://plus.google.com/111905613472490788948" class="proflink" tabindex="-1" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,204)!important;text-decoration:none">Nicky Ringland</a></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"> </span><span class="proflinkWrapper" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">+</span><a href="https://plus.google.com/116830524696476899564" class="proflink" tabindex="-1" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,204)!important;text-decoration:none">Chris Betcher</a></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">, James Curran and more. They did a splendid job and you really must check out the NSSCP Challenge that they also organise. I will share some details about it later but I cannot wait to try it out with my year 11 students. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:19px">I had a really good chat to a speaker from New Zeeland and agreed to share notes and ideas about an American CS association.</span><div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">After a night to catch up on some sleep, I will be heading off home this Saturday morning. Love to hear your feedback or if you are curious about the notes that I got from this event. Thanks for those of you that shared me some tweets and notes.<br>
</span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br>Looking forward to catching up with you all at a future CS4HS event :-)<br><br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:19px">Regards Roland</span><br>
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