Rochester Students Win National Computer Competition. Rochester Public School students took first place at the National High School Computer Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the end of July.
Southern Minnesota's branch of the Black Data Processing Associates won the National BDPA High School Computer Competition, facing off against 13 others, with a team that included Kyle Croarkin, Anjali Donthi, Tiera Felder, Vedha Somashekar and Tristan Trejo. For the win, each member of the team received a $3,000 scholarship.
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| Rochester students attend the National Black
Data Processing Associates High School Competition held in Cincinnati,
Ohio at the end of July. From left to right (around the table: Vedha
Somashekar (9th grade at Century), Tristan Trejo (Freshman at University
of Minnesota), Kyle Croarkin (9th grade at Mayo), Anjali Donthi (9th
grade at Century), Tiera Felder (9th grade at Century) |
The two-day competition included a seven-hour programming project, followed by a written portion, which included about 130 questions on web technologies, programming languages, number conversion from decimal to hexadecimal, the history of Black Data Processing Associates, cyber security and more. Students don't know what they'll be tasked with creating before the competition. This year, it included creating a web application that would allow them to locate a car they were interested in purchasing, purchase the car with a loan and perform an analysis on the depreciation value over time.
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