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As leader of ComSoc at my school, I guide the Year 12 and 13 students and keep on the lookout for any new opportunities we can take part in. A few months ago, we practised for the British Informatics Olympiad, a challenging set of three...

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I've owned the domain name hawksley.dev for a while now, but I've never done much with it aside from sending email. Over the weekend, I thought I might as well make good use of it and decided to create a blog. In the beginning, this site...