Theme / Problem: Identify and use a "Real Estate," "Housing," and/or "Community" related open-source data set for your analyses and research. In the scientific poster, cite the source of the data, including the URL/domain and file format. 

The competition showcases the competitor's skills with data analysis tools and ability to create a data-driven story.  The year I competed, we had to develop and solve a question using real estate data.  The question I answered was "How did the affordability of a home change?". Elimination was done through 3 rounds.

Round 1: This was the early submission round. We had to send a Data Science Report of our question, conclusion, and how we came to that conclusion. 

Project Submitted: link

Round 2: In this round, the competitors give a live presentation to 3 judges of their findings. Getting scored based on both technical and presentation skills. Only the top 12 teams in the state progress to 

Round 3: With a window of 3 hours, we had to create a presentation of insights found in the company data that was provided. Insights were found through creating visualizations of that data and packing the findings in a PDF that my team turned in.

Solution: link

Standing: 4th place

Theme / Problem: Develop a program that enhances the environment and/or agriculture to be more sustainable and efficient. 

This competition tests the competitors' skills to develop software that relates to a theme. My submission was a dashboard that highlights areas of high and low insecurity in food, water, and electricity. Using this information, resources can be distributed more efficiently.

Round 1: Early submission of the executable of the project and a link to the git hub. Only top 12 teams can progress after this round.

Round 2: Live presentation of the project to 3 judges. 7 minutes describing and 3 minutes answering questions  

Github: link

Standing: 5th place

Theme / Problem: Kid’s game, 2 to 4 players, playable on one (1) screen and one (1) keyboard at a time

This competition puts on full display my skills as a game developer. Using C# and unity made a 2 player ninja attack game, with different techniques the player can experiment with.

Round 1: Early submission of the link to the game and documentation of its development. Only top 12 teams can progress after this round.

Round 2: Live presentation of the game to 2 judges.

Github: link

Standing: 9th place

This competition tested user knowledge on C#, Java, and Python then we competed in 5 data structures and algorithms evaluation.

Round 1: On site exam on knowledge on C#, Java, and Python, top 12 scores progress

Round 2: Competitors was given leet code like problems and was asked to solve, competitors was scored on accuracy of results

standing: 7th place

To evaluate competitors programming and problem solving skills they tasked students to create  a finance tracker app. Decided to use java for the back-end with FXML doing most of the front-end and SQLite store user transaction data. 

Github: link

A state wide competition hosted by EC-Council where the competitors engage in virtual machines to patch up in-securities, attack servers vulnerabilities, and perform Capture The Flag operations. To prepare for the competition I read a book they provided and practiced with the practice environment they gave us.  

A 12-hour hack-a-thon sponsored by google and github. The challenge was to create an app that uses Gemini API. So the app we made was a chemistry simulation of Na and Cl performing ionic bonds. Another feature we added was an AI Walter White chat bot that could explain the chemical reaction or answer any other chemistry questions. The focus of project was to aid chemistry students learn molecular interactions in a more visual and hands on way.   

Github: link