While the rules are very strict and you can't take part in the competition unless you are in the UK or Channel Islands we have always turned a blind eye to the few enthusiasts across the globe who sign up for the competition. Over the years we have had a number of schools across Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the Americas taking part and this year we welcome teams from the following schools:
Chambersburg Area Middle School from Pennsylvannia
Punahou High School from Hawaii
Fremont High School, Florida
Harrow International, Bangokok
British School, Tokyo
People from the department spend a lot of time travelling so if you are thinking of studying in the UK and would like a visit from one of us, let us know.
Meanwhile, welcome to the National Cipher Challenge wherever you are from, it is great to have you here.
Harry
We just received a request from Peter Harrold of the Tokyo Broadcasting System to hook up with schools to do a piece on codebreaking, Bletchley, GCHQ and Bond. They are the oldest and largest independant broadcaster in Japan so this is quite a coup and it would be great to find a school keen to be involved. Do get in touch with him if you are interested. A reminder that we are looking for schools to get involved not individual teams, so please talk to your teachers first. All the best, Harry
To whom it my concern,
My name is peter and I am an assistant news producer for Japanâs oldest and largest independent broadcast network.
After watching William Hagueâs speech at Bletchley Park yesterday, I decided it would be interesting to do a report on the University of Southamptonâs National Cipher Challenge, possibly tied in with a report on GCHQâs new policies on recruiting the next generation of James Bond!
I would really appreciate it if the person or persons in charge of the Cipher Challenge could get in touch with me. My details are at the bottom of this message.
Thank you for your time,
Yours faithfully,
Peter Harrold
| Assistant News Producer | Tokyo Broadcasting System, London Bureau
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The Huts will open for business today. You will need a password to find out which Hut you have been allocated to, and if all goes according to plan we will have a very special guest announce that password at Bletchley this afternoon. Keep an eye out on the news and info page and on the forums for any information about this. Harry
Congratualtions to of the following 8 teams each of which whas won a cheque for £25 in this week's draw. We will be in touch by email to the address you gave us when registering, so do please check it and get back to us promptly so we can process your award.
To everyone else, there is always next week. Good luck,
Harry
Winners of the Part 2A Prizes:
Ben Taylor, Alistair Benford & Lewis Kime from Alderman White School and Language College
Kieran Agg from St Birinus School
JRo from Hanham High School
LightningLegate from Westgate School, Winchester
TBN from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Jed, Katie, Matthew and Olivia from Emmanuel College
The Jelly Monster from Manchester High School for Girls
Sophie, Sammy and Ellie from Harwell Primary School
As in previous years we have selected 8 teams at random who submitted to Challenge 1A to win a cheque for £25. We will be in touch by email to the address you gave us when registering, so do please check it and get back to us promptly so we can process your award.
To everyone else, there is always next week.
This week we also ran a movie competition, to make a short youtube video designed to attract new people to the challenge. We had just two entries, and they were sufficiently idiosyncratic that we couldn't decide on a winner so have instead split the prize and award £50 to each of the two schools. You can see their cinematographic masterpieces here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57xlYRIGVRg
We invite both groups to contact us in order to claim their prizes!
We would like to put a movie on the resource page which shows a school maths (or cipher) club working on the challenge so that teachers can see what is involved. Maybe with some comments from a teacher or from members of a team about what they get out of doing the competition. No prizes for this, but if anyone wants to put something together for us to use we could let your local press know about it as well so your school maths department would get some good publicity.
Good luck with Challenge 2, hope you like it,
Harry
Winners of the Part 1A Prizes:
Robert Keens from St Cleres School/ Stanford and Corringham Sixth Form
Joe Shailer and Siridej Chaixanien from Kings school Canterbury
Maddy Green, Charlotte Robins and Katie Shannon from Bedales
Bethany Soane from Richard Rose Morton Academy
Cambo, Ellz and MilesLong from Honiton Community College
Grace Lam, Mulan Luu and Ying Xue from The Sydney Russell School
Katt, Jeremy, Sandra and Nick from Queen Elizabeth School
Isobel Smith, Imogen Astbury Head, Milly Wakelin and Ella James from St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
