Students at Lower Dauphin High School were recently recognized for achievements related to computing.
Teams from Lower Dauphin High School won first and third places at the annual Shippensburg University Computer Programming Contest. The first-place team was made up of Toby Waters, Carter Lammando, and Raphael Bastos. Adrian Olweiler and Jake McIntire were on the third-place team. Both teams were advised by high school teacher Nancy Kiscadden.
The team programming competition consists of five to seven challenging problems. Each team, consisting of one to three students, develops programs to correctly solve as many of the problems as it can. An additional challenge of this competition is that each team only has one computer to work with. The winners are decided based on which team solved the most problems in the least amount of time. The problems are developed each year by members of the Shippensburg University Programming Team.
Additionally, Lower Dauphin senior Katelyn Hanft was named an award winner by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Hanft was a central Pennsylvania winner of the Award for Aspirations in Computing, which recognizes high school young women for their computing-related achievements and interests as part of the NCWIT's efforts to encourage a diverse range of students to choose careers in technology. Hanft was selected from more than 3,500 applicants for having outstanding aptitude and aspirations in technology and computing as demonstrated by her computing experience, computing-related activities, leadership experience, tenacity in the face of barriers to access, and plans for postsecondary education.
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