MVCTC Game Programming Students win big at Miami Valley Teen Coding Challenge
Englewood, Ohio – MVCTC Game Programming and Web Applications students participated on December 7, in the Miami Valley Teen Coding Challenge sponsored by AT&T and Sinclair Community College. Two of the Game Programming student teams won cash prizes of $1,500 and $1,000 respectively for second and third place, and all of the students walked away with Raspberry PI computers. In addition, three students won door prizes, one of them being an LG Tablet.
Area high school students wrote code and developed working Android applications focused on improving data security, and on having a potential impact on the Miami Valley region. The app “PassKey” developed by Jaime Martin (Miamisburg), Jena Flora (Mississinawa Valley), Matt Hasman (Carlisle), and Amethyst Smith (Tri-Village) securely tracks and generates passwords for an individual. The PassKey group will split the second place $1,500 cash prize.
The Diabetes Tracker developed by Cody Puskas (Brookville), Aaron Henderson (West Carrollton) and Nolan Archer (Franklin Monroe) earned third place, with a $1,000 cash prize split among the team members. Other schools completing include Centerville High School, Stebbins High School, Hamilton High School, Kettering Fairmont High School, Springboro High School (Warren County Career Center satellite), and Dayton Ponitz. There were 14 teams in all. The students plan to continue to add features to their apps, and to post their apps to their personal portfolio websites at http://gw.mvctc.com, where student work can be viewed. Instructor Melissa Goodall says “this was a great competition. It was challenging, and the students really stepped up. I’m very proud of how they did, and their apps show some very impressive coding. I am thankful Sinclair and AT&T sponsored this competition, and look forward to competing again next year.”
For over 45-years, MVCTC has been providing career technical education for 27 partner school districts encompassing five counties in Southwest Ohio. MVCTC is dedicated to providing in-demand workforce training for youth, adults, and organizations in the Miami Valley.
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Photo – MVCTC Game Programming and Web Applications students participated on December 7, in the Miami Valley Teen Coding Challenge sponsored by AT&T and Sinclair Community College. Two of the Game Programming student teams won cash prizes of $1,500 and $1,000 respectively for second and third place.
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