It's not everyone's idea of how to spend their January school holidays. But for 78 motivated high-school students, interested in web applications and robotics, the University of Sydney's National Computer Science School (NCSS) - now in its fifteenth year - still holds great appeal. The year 11 and 12 students are also given the opportunity to meet and learn from program sponsors including Google, Apple University Consortium and Altium. The University of Sydney, 15 January 2010.
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