About Computer Science

Richardson High School computer science students have a long-standing reputation for having the best programmers in the state. Students regularly compete in programming contests where teams of three students have to solve a series of programming problems in a matter of hours. 

Richardson High School computer science also has participated in an autonomous vehicle challenge at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. The vehicles are required to navigate oval track, clover track and random layout stock on their own vehicles. With the fastest time win, we've competed for the first time. In March 2017, Richardson High School was the only school from Texas to attend and placed first in the oval track, first on the Clover track, second on the random track and first place overall. 

Richardson High School computer science students enjoy attending hackathons. A hackathon is a 24 hours event where competitors form teams to create, develop, build and pitch a revolutionary technological idea. Computer science believes in learning about the most cutting edge technology that the world has to offer. Richardson is the only school RSD learning and developing with virtual reality, augmented reality, motion capture, animation and special effects. The students are highly engaged in understanding graphics, animation, modeling how virtual reality works, and learning to develop VR games and applications.