Last month, a group of learners competed in the Cyberfirst Girls Challenge, against teams from schools across Wales. Read about Charlie’s experience in the competition below!
“The Cyberfirst Girls challenge is such an excellent opportunity to learn loads of new skills, with the incentive of a three course meal in Cardiff waiting at the end. This year we came third place in Wales. This is because our school worked really hard as a team.Â
I found the competition really exciting, especially as it was in one of my favourite subjects: coding. I learnt to use Cyberchef, which is a really cool website which can translate most code, and even identify different codes. I loved the competition, and it is such a good team building opportunity. I learnt so much, such as how to identify Base64 (a type of code) and I learnt all about Linux terminals.
There was one question that confused me a lot. It was titled ‘99 green bottles’ It was really cryptic, with a link taking you to a website with a button. When the button was clicked, a piece of text came out; ‘99 green bottles’ when you clicked it again and it said ‘and if one should fall’ another press said ‘then there will be 98 bottles standing on the wall’ this continued until it got to 1 bottle, when it then looped back to 99.“
The team will attend an awards evening at the Celtic Manor early next year, and are in the running for a number of fantastic prizes for themselves and the school.
Da iawn, merched!