Well, it has been a long time, and we are, as always, amazed at your dedication. This year's Challenge has been particularly tough, with lots of traps for the unwary and you had to think hard to avoid them. Congratulations to all of you. The Honours Board has been updated and we can now announce the winners of this year's main prizes:
The GCHQ Prize of £1,000 goes to Robert Lasenby of Hills Road Sixth Form College
The IBM Prize (a Thinkpad laptop) goes to Josh Williams (the Firey Squirrel) of Richard Lander School
The Trinity College Cambridge Prize of £700 is shared by Team Hrmph, that is Jonathan Dias and Nicholas Holliday of The London Oratory School.
The prizes will be awarded at the ceremony at Bletchley Park on April 27th 2007, we hope to see some of you there. This year the Prizegiving is being sponsored by the British Computer Society and we have a limited number of tickets to give away to schools for this event. It will be a funfilled afternoon including a programme of lectures, a tour and the presentation of prizes. We are delighted that Simon Singh, one of Britain's most popular science writers has agreed to speak, as has Boris Johnson, a politician well known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You.
If you wish to attend please ask your school to contact us by email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) with the number of tickets required (including staff) by 14th February. We will allocate tickets by lottery.
Whether you are celebrating Christmas, New Year, some other festival, or just having a good time with family or friends this is to say a big THANK YOU for all your commitment to the National Cipher Challenge and to wish you all the best. Harry.
Would the following team please contact us by email (with full names of team members, teacher and head teachers names and school postal address) regarding the winning of a prize for challenge 3A:
Kahil24-7 from Saint Francis Xavier Sixth Form.
The following team still hasn't contacted us with regards to winning a prize for challenge 1.
Random Eskimos (The Sweyne Park School)
If you are in this team please email us with your school address, name of teacher contact, name of head teacher, names of all members of the team and the person to write the cheque to.
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