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Spring 2015 Contest, Huge Success!

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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PACC 2015 Registration Now Open!

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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STEM Out! is now Tech Out!

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…

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Winter 2014 Contest Report

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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