On Saturday, April 18th, K-12 students from around Iowa gathered at Atanasoff Hall to participate in the 2015 Spring Annual Computational Thinking Competition.
Students showcased projects in a wide variety of areas; ranging from games, robotics and new innovative ideas and inventions. In many of the projects, students showed their knowledge of coding and programming. Below are a list of the winners with the title of their project. From the Department of Computer Science, we would like to thank all of our participants for joining us for this fun, exciting and scholarly event.
Division K-3
1st Place: Wesley Baber: Project Title, Piano Guy
2nd Place: Anika Shrotriya: Project Title, Indian Culture
3rd Place: Alek & Daniel Fialkov: Project Title: Food Police
Division 4 - 6
1st Place: Sivakumar Pragulnath: Project Title: Scribblenauts
2nd Place: Mariana Correia, Ketty Nguyen & Sofiya Palasyuk: Project Title: AMS Digital Tour
3rd Place: Mason Baber: Project Title: Card Catalog on the Go
Division 7 - 9
1st Place: Simeon Steward: Project Title: Fireworks
2nd Place: Andres Cordoba & Erik Nelson: Project Title: Quarry
3rd Place: Justin Kenny: Project Title: Talkbot
Division 10 - 12
1st Place: James Beetham: Project Title: TaFi Calculator Program
2nd Place: Sandeep Stanley: Project Title: Computers!
3rd Place: Ben Breshears: Project Title: Physics Simulation