The Seattle team at Def Hacks (defhacks.io) is hosting the third annual 24-hour hackathon at Microsoft HQ on April 13th-14th (see Def_Hacks_Seattle_Flyer) . The hackathon is an MLH Member Event, and has a strong emphasis on FinTech as Even (evenfinancial.com) is a sponsor and co-host. We will have mentors and recruiters from multiple companies, free meals and snacks, lots of swag, and over $2,000 in prizes! If you’re interested, learn more at defhacks.io/hackathons/seattle, apply by filling out our Typeform at https://defhacks.typeform.com/to/soJJIA (you will hear back by April 6th), or feel free to reach out to christopher@defhacks.io if you have any questions.

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REGISTRATION LINK: https://teamscode.typeform.com/to/bnGcWl

Thank you for supporting TeamsCode!

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They are also in need of judges that would help score each team’s solutions to their problems. Please contact Alan and Chris through their website for more information.

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Duck Duck Nose

The PSCSTA Winter 2017 programming contest is a wrap! This contest was unique in a number of ways. Although we had our typical programming and pizza, with approximately 260 students from 105 teams (23 teams from Bellevue and 10 from Issaquah), we had the highest number schools represented in our eight year history, with teams from as far away as Orting and Ellensburg. Also, in addition to our usual T-shirt distribution, every student received a rubber duck to help with their debugging (see Rubber Duck Debugging for more information).

Stephen Spencer, a first time judge said this of the contest: “I was impressed with how focused all of the kids seemed to be. They were excited to be there, and ready to be challenged with the problems they were given. I liked seeing the relief on their faces when I said ‘You’re correct!’ As a first time judge, I liked that there were clear instructions on how to run the contest prior to it starting, and that there was someone there that I could turn to if I had a question, or what to do next, or how to answer a participant’s question.” He did follow jokingly with “The lack of fruit snacks was appalling.”

Dec 2017 Contest keynote

I want to give a special thanks to Jeffrey Friedberg, Chief Trust Architect, Microsoft for giving a compelling speech that started by telling students to do what they love.

Thank you to Becky Howsmon, Matt Paulson, Kenny Chan, Miriam Brady, Anthony Papini, Kip Fern, and Kevin Wang from TEALS for sponsoring this event by providing food, t-shirts, space, last-minute printing, prize-wheel entertainment, and promotional assistance.

An additional shout out to all those who helped make the event happen: Lauren Bricker and Brett Wortzman for organizing, Jane Bissonnette for Judge Wrangling, Alec McTavish, the Master Of Google Spreadsheets, for registration, Daniel Lafferty for handling permission forms, Lawrence Tanimoto for handling all of the email and website communications, Brett Wortzman, Anna Burago, and Andrea Foegler for packet creation, Michael Hawker – Lead Judge, Emily Johnson (Advanced), Chad Magendanz (Novice), Andrew Fitz Gibbon (Novice) for being head division judges, and Kory Srock for finding the speaker.

Photos from the contest:

• Adrian
• Julia

Novice winners

Advance division
all tied with 715 points, tie broken by time

Please contact us for a copy of the results.

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For more details, visit https://bapeca.github.io/.

The BAPECA competition also needs volunteers for judging! If you are interested, please contact bryanandpreston@outlook.com.

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We are excited to announce that Skyline High School will be hosting a programming competition on November 11th! It will be similar to competitions such as PSCSTA and MIHS. More information can be found on our website, at http://spartanprogrammingcompetition.weebly.com/

You can register using this link. Please only register only once per team.

We will have prizes for the winning teams and will feature a keynote speaker who has worked in the video game industry for most of his career, including working for Microsoft and Xbox.

We hope to see you all there!

–Nishu, Kevin, Daniel, and Neil
Skyline HS
Sammamish, WA

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This meeting has two main purposes:

• It’s an informal social meet up/networking opportunity to encourage our fellow computer science teachers
• It’s a way that PSCSTA can hear your voice! PSCSTA wants to know what activities you would like us to do during this school year to support you and as a CS teachers in this region.

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The Fall 2017 MIHS Programming Contest takes place on October 21st from 9:30 to 3:30. Just like in our last event in April, students can choose between the Intermediate and Advanced divisions and will have three hours to complete as many of the fifteen challenging coding problems as they can. Food and snacks are provided, and at the end of the contest, the winning teams will receive medals and all participants will have a chance to win a variety of prizes at the raffle! Visit teamscode.com for the full details. Registration is $10 per participant, fee can be waived if needed. Sign up today!!

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