Code breaking success!
Isaac H in Lower Sixth participated in the National Cypher Challenge as part of co-curricular sessions and has been awarded the Ada Lovelace Prize, winning a certificate, gold medal and £1000! He’ll also attend the award ceremony at Bletchley Park in March. This brilliant recognition of his skill comes after he deciphered a very challenging code in less than 24 hours and impressed the judges with his account of combining coding and analysis to break the final challenge.
Test yourself!
See if you can crack the code here. Answers to follow in next week’s newsletter!
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Cracked it? Email d.robson@bishopveseys.bham.sch.uk for the solution!