GHS 401
Welcome to GHS 401 with Mr. Willis. I am excited to work with you in Computer Science and Math! Please click on the course links at the top of the page for more information on specific courses.
Hackathon Creation and Award April 2024
"Promoting social inclusion by enabling easier communication with hard-of-hearing individuals."
GHS Computer Science students Hastin Chen, Aarav Mehta, and Ziad Mohammed attended Los Altos Hacks VIII https://www.losaltoshacks.com/ in April of 2024. They built an American Sign Language interpreter that reads hand gestures. Their program uses the camera on your device, determines 21 hand joints, and deciphers the signed letter from A-Z. The joint detection is created using machine learning through ML5, and their custom-built algorithm utilizes a regression error model. The interpretation can be displayed via text and through voice. Their creation was awarded 1st place out of 80 teams who entered the competition!
In a 24-hour period, the team of three students built the following website: https://fyrebolt.github.io/LAhacks/
Here is their project on GitHub: https://github.com/fyrebolt/LAhacks
See the images above and below from OmBalance, the Yoga web app.
Hackathon Creation and Award 2024
GHS Computer Science students Hastin Chen, Aarav Mehta, and Ziad Mohammed attended PioneerHacks V in February 2024. In a 24-hour period, they built a web app for yoga practitioners. The app shows the user how to do various yoga poses, and uses machine learning to measure how accurately the user is doing the pose. They used HTML, CSS, and JS for the frontend/firebase, and ml5 for the machine learning position tracking.
Here's a link to the website: https://nor4wal12.github.io/PioneerHackathon
Github repository: https://github.com/NOR4Wal12/PioneerHackathon
Devpost page for the project: https://devpost.com/software/ombalance
Hackathon website: https://pioneerhacks.org/
Hackathon devpost: https://pioneerhacks-v.devpost.com/
There were 177 participants in the hackathon, and their app took 2nd place!
Hackathon Creation and Award 2023
GHS Computer Science students Hastin Chen, Aarav Mehta, Ziad Mohammed and Logan Rothe attended Los Altos Hacks VII https://www.losaltoshacks.com/ in April, 2023. There were 411 participants in 2023, making it the largest high school hackathon in the world!
In a 24-hour period, the team of four students built the following website using Google's Firebase Database and a food API: https://hotsanta.github.io/LosAltosHackathon/profile.html
Check it out! They used the database backend to store user logins and recipe favorites per user and specific food diets and intolerances.
Out of 140 teams, they won one of the major categories: "Best Hack using Github"!
Taskadia App
Check out this app built by Granada students and brothers, Feoden and Farin Soriano, they did an outstanding job! In the summer of 2020, they entered a hackathon hosted by TaroHacks. The hackathon had 85 participants and Feoden and Farin won best high school hack! After watching the video, you will see why. They used Flutter, a software development kit created by Google to develop their app.
Everybody Votes Web App
GHS Computer Science students Hastin Chen, Aarav Mehta, Ziad Mohammed and Logan Rothe created this web app in the fall of 2023 for a submission to the Congressional App Challenge.
https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/
I am so impressed with their app! It can be found here: https://fyrebolt.github.io/everybodyvotes/index.html
Here is a 3-minute video that the team made explaining their app and its creation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uQJgq9Kp1E&ab_channel=EveryBodyVotes
The students built the app using Github, Google's Firebase Database, Google's Civic Information API, and Wikimedia's API, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
GHS Computer Science student Hastin Chen(typing in photo) attended Hyphen-Hacks(https://hyphen-hacks.com/), a programming competition for Bay Area High School students in September 2023 at Lick-Wilmerding High School. Hastin joined three fellow high school students he met during the 2023 Cosmos Summer Program (https://cosmos-ucop.ucdavis.edu/app/main).
The four students created a multi-participant art application utilizing a server and also using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Firebase Database, Node.js and Wick. The website and program that the students created can be accessed here: https://fyrebolt.github.io/mosaic/
Their competition submission can be found at https://devpost.com/software/mosaic-sb6k0i and their program can be found on github: https://github.com/fyrebolt/mosaic
Out of 14 teams in the competition, their program won 1st Place Best Hack and also won the People's Choice award voted on by each team!
Check out our classroom with this 3D image, Granada room 401!
Granada High students Andrew Lau and Ashley Zhuang were recipients of an Innovation Tri-Valley Dreammakers & Risktakers Award for their work in cybersecurity and programming competitions.
Thank you to PLTW and their partnership with Chevron, for funding a $10,000 grant to the Granada High School Computer Science Department in 2018 and another $10,000 in 2019!
2018 Granada High AP Computer Science Students Andrew Lau, Ashley Zhuang, and Hriday Sheth receiving their award in Sunnyvale at the prestigious Code Quest event held worldwide by Lockheed Martin. Students compete for 2.5 hours solving programming challenges. These Granada students programmed in Java and finished in 3rd place out of 24 teams in their division.
Riley Parkerson, Ben Hatch, Eric Heinke, and Christopher Horch show off their programs at the 2019 Livermore Innovation Fair!
2016 Granada High AP Computer Science Students Shannon Yan, Sam Decosta, Meenakshi (Mannu) Singhal, and Malvika Singhal competed in and won the 15th District Congressional App Challenge. Their app "Tranquility" addressed stress and ways to cope.
Construction of the Jim Willis Conversation Square. Please see the dedicated page above for more info and pictures on the project.
