The team from Middletown Area High School (MAHS) recently defeated 19 area high school teams in the 34th annual Computer Problem Solving Contest held at HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College. Freshman Christian Burke-Bowman, sophomore Ryder Webster, and junior Justin Yohn competed against teams predominantly consisting of juniors and seniors. They attacked the two-hour challenge using their combined knowledge of coding and became the only team in the competition to complete all seven problems correctly.
The 20 teams were challenged to solve seven "Game of Thrones" themed problems using only computer code. Teams were able to choose which programming language they would use, and the MAHS team chose to use Python. The judges noted that, in addition to their coding accuracy, their programming efficiency and documentation were completed extremely well and set them apart from the other teams.
Ryder's participation in the contest is a family tradition. When his father was a high school sophomore, he competed in the very first year of the same competition 34 years ago.
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