Our 3 Whitewater High School Computer Programming Teams are among 400 area high school students competing at Marquette University today in their annual computer programming contest. The students will spend the morning working to complete a series of problems in Java. Go, Whippets!

Marquette University has gone virtual this year with their annual programming competition, and Whitewater High School has 2 teams competing today from a classroom at WHS. There are teams representing 24 different schools in today's competition. Students will work for 3 hours in teams of 4 using the Java programming language to solve a series of problems through a special website that Marquette computer science students developed for the contest. Marquette sent t-shirts ahead of time and is communicating with teams through videos, Meets, and discussion boards throughout the day.

The competition was not held in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Computer programming students competing at Marquette University today earned a balloon each time they solved a problem correctly. Scratch teams competed in groups of two and Java teams competed in groups of four. Each team worked for 3 hours to solve their problem sets.

The team of Cole Kinson, Zach Brantmeier, Nick Kuzoff, and Cassi Hoxie has won the Marquette programming competition! Each team member was awarded a 22" monitor at an impromptu awards ceremony in the lobby as teams were heading out early due to the weather.

The Whippets had a very successful day at the Marquette University Programming Contest on Wednesday, April 19. Approximately 250 students from around southeast Wisconsin competed in either Scratch or Java. Michael Hilliger's work was selected as "most creative" in the Scratch division, and he was awarded a mobile power supply. Because there were 45 java teams, Marquette split the schools into two divisions (large school and small school), and they accidentally put Whitewater teams in both. The team of Mitch Dalzin, Zach Brantmeier, Nick Kuzoff, and Dineth Gunawardena placed third in the large school division, and each student received a Raspberry Pi 3. The team of Jacob Korf, Declin Anderson, Zach Gross, and Tyler Marinkovic was awarded third place in the small school division, and each student received a Chromecast. Because it was Marquette's error, they let the students keep the prizes and will also identify and award prizes to a new 3rd place team for the small schools. Only 20% of Wisconsin high schools currently offer computer science coursework, and most of those schools are concentrated in the southeast corner of the state. There is a large push underway to expand computer science throughout the state.

Twenty-four computer programmers competed at Marquette University on Wednesday, April 13. Advanced students competed in teams of four using Java, and younger students competed in teams of two using Scratch. The competition hosted approximately 50 java teams and 36 Scratch teams from schools throughout southern Wisconsin. Check out this article from a Milwaukee news station: http://fox6now.com/.../its-challenging-but-its-also-fun.../

The Whitewater High School Computer Programming Team of Wentao Guo, Chamath Gunawardena, Leif Sahyun, and Mitch Dalzin competed at Marquette University on Wednesday, April 15. The team placed second out of 28 teams in the Java division. The programming competition had corporate sponsorship, and each member of the team claimed their prize of a Razer Blackwidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard.