And we’re back for day 2 of VEX Robotics UK national finals…what an exciting learning experience for Alfred and his assistants :-)

And so Alfred’s Assistants bring home the Energy award at VEX Robotics UK national finals! Super proud of these guys :-)

And it’s a wrap for RGS Newcastle 6 days of national finals for 3 different competitions. Well done to all of our fantastic young people for being amazing :-)

Super proud to announce that one of our pupils has made it through to the shortlist for BAFTA Games YGD for their entry for the Game Concept award for their idea “Tiled in Twilight”. More to follow :-)

Diamond Dogs: David Bowie co-wrote a program to give him lyric ideas. Based on the ‘cut-up’ technique / algorithm it created strange combinations of ideas by combining halves of sentences from different places. He built whole songs around the ideas. See: cs4fn.blog/2022/06/20/dia…

Jasmine G, finalist in the BAFTA Games Young Games Designer competition, was interviewed by BBC Sport Tyne & Wear today! Check out the interview @ 1:21:16 on this link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… and don't forget to watch the awards ceremony next Thursday @ 5pm here: youtube.com/user/BAFTAkids/

A gorgeous pixel art puzzler! Congratulations to Jasmine Guan, winner of the Game Concept 10-14 category with the fantastic Tiled In Twilight! #BAFTAYGD🎮🥳

Congratulations to Jasmine G on winning the BAFTA Games Young Games Designer Games Concept Award in the 10-14 year old category!! Find out more about her design at ygd.bafta.org/competition/co… RGS Newcastle

#BAFTAYGD winner Jasmine Guan tells us more about her game Tiled In Twilight! Nice one! 🏆 Find out more:ygd.bafta.org/competition/co…

Our talented game designer Jasmine will collect a very well deserved award this weekend BAFTA Games Listen to her interview with BBC Sport Tyne & Wear about how it feels to win #BAFTAYGD #gaming

Congratulations to the 24,900 students who have secured places on Computer Science degree courses this year– the largest % increase of any subject. Today's UCAS Corporate data also show a 16% rise in female students due to start CS degrees⬇️ bit.ly/3pugIJW #resultsday

Almost time for a lunch break in Round 1 of CyberCenturion IX! RGS Newcastle students from Year 7 to Year 13 are competing in this cyber defence competition from the Air Force Association and presented by Northrop Grumman today against 148 teams from across the country!

A wonderful build combining my 2 loves #supermario and #LEGO Great work from Taseen and Aaryan

Our new corridor display gives our young people a new space to play. Idea taken from our recent trip to [email protected] finals and the amazing work of Matthew Ashton Everyone Is Awesome 😉

Today will mostly be spent sorting LEGO bricks as part of our architecture initiative :-)

Great to see Team Obamium rocking the STEM Learning Cyber Centurion page today. Really looking forward to the next year’s competition! stem.org.uk/secondary/enri…

In our latest ONA Magazine with Sony CEO Jim Ryan ON we explore his awe inspiring career, our work with Digital Schoolhouse and our generations of RGS Old Novos in the technology industry. Read the full mag here > bit.ly/3obKgis #playstation #computerscience

Year 8 students are finishing off a morning of #CyberFirstTrailblazers with some stop motion animation! Cyber First North East Thanks Sarah for running the morning for us!

A group of our Year 9 students are taking part in #CyberFirst Investigators today, role-playing as cyber security experts working for fictional app company, Sirius Cyberworks, to uncover how a data leak happened using forensics, steganography and open source intelligence.

Our Year 8 #CyberFirst Girls' competition team are having a great day at RTC North for the North East celebration day. We've spent the morning cracking Enigma codes and solving puzzles! Cyber First North East RGS Newcastle Sarah