susan evans – PSCSTA http://pscsta.org Supporting Computer Science Teachers and Students in the Puget Sound community Sun, 03 May 2015 22:00:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 http://i2.wp.com/pscsta.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-PugetSoundSm-centered.png?fit=32%2C32 susan evans – PSCSTA http://pscsta.org 32 32 Spring 2015 Contest, Huge Success! http://pscsta.org/2015/05/spring-2015-contest-huge-success/ http://pscsta.org/2015/05/spring-2015-contest-huge-success/#respond Sun, 03 May 2015 02:58:09 +0000 http://pscsta.org/?p=1598 Last weekend, we hosted our second Programming Contest of the school year at the Living Computer Museum. In total ~200 students participated (in grades 8 – 12) on 85 teams! This event was made possible with the dedication of our Programming Contest Committee which was lead by Lauren Bricker, Frances Davies, Michael Johnson, Brian Sea, and Justin Spielmann. We also are very thankful for the 30 industry volunteers who served as judges in the contest. All photos of the event are…

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]]> Last weekend, we hosted our second Programming Contest of the school year at the Living Computer Museum. In total ~200 students participated (in grades 8 – 12) on 85 teams! This event was made possible with the dedication of our Programming Contest Committee which was lead by Lauren Bricker, Frances Davies, Michael Johnson, Brian Sea, and Justin Spielmann. We also are very thankful for the 30 industry volunteers who served as judges in the contest.

All photos of the event are now posted on our flickr page!

The contest started with a Tech Panel of industry professionals that work in Computer Science fields related to Security. The video of this panel will be posted soon.

The winners of the advanced division were

  • 1st place: 2sly4you from Garfield High School (earning 835 points in 2:45:43)
  • 2nd place: Sirius Cybernetics from MercerIsland High School (earning 780 points in 2:42:53)
  • 3rd place: Complexity from Interlake High School (earning 780 points in 2:53:43)*

The winners of the intermediate division were

  • 1st place: Eastlake High from Eastlake High School (earning 775 points in 2:32:47)
  • 2nd place: Polar Vortex from Tahoma High School (earning 720 points in 2:29:12)
  • 3rd place: ! from Seattle Preparatory School (earning 660 points in 2:59:00)

* We regretfully had some miscommunication with a judge in the advanced division. Corrections to the Bank Street Writer were not communicated to the judge which resulted in two teams not receiving these corrections. We apologize greatly to the teams impacted, which included Complexity from Interlake High School. If they had received these corrections they may have been able to place higher in the standings.

All scoresheets and materials used are provided below.

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]]> http://pscsta.org/2015/05/spring-2015-contest-huge-success/feed/ 0 PACC 2015 Registration Now Open! http://pscsta.org/2015/01/pacc-2015-registration-now-open/ http://pscsta.org/2015/01/pacc-2015-registration-now-open/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:03:03 +0000 http://pscsta.org/?p=1501 The Paul Allen Computing Challenge (PACC) 2015 Registration is now open! We apologize for the delays, we had trouble getting the proper authorization for the data set we will be using. The PACC is a data challenge created by the partnership of the PSCSTA and the Living Computer Museum. This year’s challenge is Data in Action! We will encourage you to think about data science from a new perspective. How could access to sports and fitness data and knowledge of…

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]]> The Paul Allen Computing Challenge (PACC) 2015 Registration is now open! We apologize for the delays, we had trouble getting the proper authorization for the data set we will be using.

The PACC is a data challenge created by the partnership of the PSCSTA and the Living Computer Museum.

This year’s challenge is Data in Action! We will encourage you to think about data science from a new perspective. How could access to sports and fitness data and knowledge of data analysis techniques help your favorite team have a better season? Are there drawbacks to collecting personal data about players?

Go to the PACC page to register, and email contests@pscsta.org if you have questions.

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]]> Our annual event for girls, previously named STEM Out! is now named Tech Out! We rebranded this event because the participants in the past were consistently giving us feedback that they wanted the activities to focus on Engineering and Technology more than the other fields. We heard your feedback and have adjusted the event. Our activities at this year’s event will include a Make a Speaker activity, Egg Drop, User Experience activity, and Computer Science activity booths.

This year’s event is Saturday, February 7th from 10am – 2:30pm. Registration opens today at 3pm. Please register early because we often fill up in just a few days.

Need more information? Check out our Tech-Out! page.

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]]> http://pscsta.org/2015/01/stem-now-tech/feed/ 0 Winter 2014 Contest Report http://pscsta.org/2014/12/winter-2014-contest-report/ http://pscsta.org/2014/12/winter-2014-contest-report/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:00:25 +0000 http://pscsta.org/?p=1318 On Saturday, December 13th, 331 students from 27 schools across the Puget Sound participated in our biannual programming contest. Due to high demand in the previous contest we arranged to host the contest at two sites: UW Seattle and Microsoft Redmond. Together with the support of volunteers, sponsoring organizations including UW Dawg Bytes, and Microsoft Teals, and key PSCSTA members including Lauren Bricker, susan ev(ans), Chad Norman, Kory Srock, Brett Wortzman, and many others we had a very successful contest.…

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]]> On Saturday, December 13th, 331 students from 27 schools across the Puget Sound participated in our biannual programming contest. Due to high demand in the previous contest we arranged to host the contest at two sites: UW Seattle and Microsoft Redmond. Together with the support of volunteers, sponsoring organizations including UW Dawg Bytes, and Microsoft Teals, and key PSCSTA members including Lauren Bricker, susan ev(ans), Chad Norman, Kory Srock, Brett Wortzman, and many others we had a very successful contest.

Westside Winners (UW Seattle)

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Photos by Bridget Lewis

Advanced

1st Place: Friday from Roosevelt High School, earning 655 points in 2:54:56
2nd Place: French Toast Mafia from Ingraham High School, earning 655 points in 2:56:47
3rd Place: Pseudo Sandwich from Lakeside, earning 600 points in 2:40:00

View all of the teams and their points in the Seattle Advanced Spreadsheet

Novice
1st Place: Coding Coconuts from Lakeside, earning 720 points in 2:41:00
2nd Place: //no comment from Nathan Hale High School, earning 715 points in 2:36:19
3rd Place: Frizbros from Garfield High School, earning 650 points in 3:00:00
Honorable Mention: Kamiak Yoda from Kamiak High School, earning 600 points in 2:06:52

View all of the teams and their points in the Seattle Novice Spreadsheet

 

Eastside Winners (Microsoft Redmond)

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Photo by Kaitlyn Dickison

Advanced
1st Place: Lanxia from Hazen High School, earning 715 points in 2:52:00
2nd Place: NHS Water from Newport High School, earning 595 points in 2:55:00
3rd Place: ascii artisan from STEM School(LWSD), earning 580 points in 2:58:00

View all of the teams and their points in the Redmond Advanced Spreadsheet

Novice
1st Place: Twenty One from Hazen High School, earning 600 points in 2:56:00
2nd Place: Donkey Rocket from Issaquah High School, earning 595 points in 2:17:00
3rd Place: Team Jeremy from Lakeside, earning 595 points in 2:36:00

View all of the teams and their points in the Redmond Novice Spreadsheet

Photos

All photos taken at this event can be found on our flickr page.

Materials

All of the materials used in this contest were created by one of our volunteers, Frances Davies. We have provided them below for your reference.

Future Events

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