Students from 18 high schools throughout Southeast Wisconsin and Northeast Illinois gathered at the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Friday, November 29, for their annual Opportunity Conference Computer Programming Competition. Whitewater was represented by seniors Elijah Grall, Cooper Hammond, Arno Crowley, Guin Yeager, and Collin Hoxie, juniors Brooke Bazeley and Drew Swartz, and freshman Andrew O’Toole. The students worked in teams of four, using two laptops per team, to solve as many of the nine competition problems as possible in Java or Python. Teams electronically submitted their solutions to the judges as they finished them and were either rewarded with positive points or with a deduction of 3 points and a message to try again. After 2.5 hours of steady hard work, the competition was closed, and students headed off to the auditorium to learn about Rosie, MSOE’s supercomputer, and how it uses deep neural networks to solve problems. When the winners of the competition were announced, a team from Whitefish Bay High School came out on top. The students are looking forward to the next in-person contest, which will be at Marquette University in the spring.

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

The WHS Computer Programming Team competed at the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Opportunity Conference Computer Programming Competition on Friday, November 22. Twelve students including Colin Chenoweth, Brian Apgar, Arno Crowley, Shawn Chan, Gwynne Sahyun, Morgan Stillwagon, Broderick Frye, Cody Rupke, Nikole Pelot, Andy Vo, Elijah Grall, and Reilly Aschenbrener were given 2.5 hours to solve 9 problems of varying difficulty using Java. Ten of the Whitewater participants have completed or are currently enrolled in AP Computer Science A; the other two participants are in their first semester of computer programming. The students enjoyed a new venue for the competition as MSOE has just opened a brand new computer science building, Diercks Hall, and the competition was held in the shadow of their new supercomputer, ROSIE. The three Whitewater teams competed against 48 teams from 20 other schools from southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois including Brookfield Central, Cary-Grove, Janesville Craig, Crystal Lake Central, Grafton, Homestead, Marquette, Menomenee Falls, Milton, Neuqua Valley, New Berlin West, New Berlin Eisenhower, Janesville Parker, Prairie Ridge, Rufus King, Shorewood, Stoughton, University School of Milwaukee, Waukesha County Home School, and Whitefish Bay. University School of Milwaukee came out on top with Neuqua Valley securing both second and third place. The top two Whitewater teams finished in 15th and 26th. The team is joined in the photo by WHS alum and current MSOE student Wesley Salverson.

On Friday, November 16, 14 current and former WHS computer programming students competed at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Opportunity Conference Computer Programming Competition with 67 teams representing 19 southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois high schools. Other participating schools included Brookfield Central, Cary-Grove, Cedarburg, Janesville Craig, Crystal Lake Central, Eisenhower, Fort Atkinson, Homestead, Marquette University HS, Menomonee Falls, Milton, New Berlin West, Janesville Parker, Prairie Ridge, Rufus King, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, and a homeschool team. A team from Homestead High School won the competition with a team from Brookfield Central placing second. Whitewater Team A, consisting of Zach Brantmeier, Colin Chenoweth, Cassi Hoxie, and Nick Kuzoff, placed 3rd, earning 161 out of 210 possible points and solving 8 of the 9 problems correctly. Team B included Nikole Pelot, Gwynne Sahyun, and Nicole Sedmak. Team C was made up of Broderick Frye, Cody Rupke, and Jon Zheng, while Team D included Jakob Klawitter, Bennett Miles, Luke Rule, and Andy Vo. Teams were given nine problems of varying difficulty that could be solved using Java with a time limit of 2.5 hours using two laptops. Teams could select to spend their time on 10 point problems, 20 point problems, and/or 40 point problems. Each incorrect submission resulted in a minus three points.

Sixty teams (240 students) from 18 southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois high schools including Janesville Parker, New Berlin West, Milton, Menomonee Falls, Marquette University High School, Homestead, Fort Atkinson, Eisenhower, Crystal Lake Central, Janesville Craig, Cedarburg, Cary-Grove, Brookfield Central, Whitewater, Rufus King, Prairie Ridge, Whitefish Bay, and Prairie Ridge competed at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) on Friday, November 17, in their annual computer programming competition. Students worked in groups of four to solve nine problems of varying difficulty using Java in two and one half hours. The Whitewater team of Zach Brantmeier, Cassi Hoxie, Nick Kuzoff, and Lydia Wiley-Deal ended the day in 5th place, while the team of Declin Anderson, Zach Gross, Jacob Korf, and Tyler Marinkovic finished tied for 11th.

On Friday, November 18, twelve Whitewater High School computer science students competed at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in their annual java programming contest. Our three teams of four joined 51 teams from 16 schools from southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois including Brookfield Central, Stoughton, Menomonee Falls, Janesville Craig, Janesville Parker, Homestead, Rufus King, Whitefish Bay, Crystal Lake Central, Cary-Grove, Fort Atkinson, Eisenhower, Prairie Ridge, Beloit Memorial, and New Berlin West. The Whitewater team of Callista Hoxie, Mitch Dalzin, Zach Brantmeier, and Nick Kuzoff placed third, just getting edged out by teams from Brookfield Central and Stoughton. The Whitewater team of Declin Anderson, Zach Gross, Jacob Korf, and Tyler Marinkovic placed 11th, and the team of Dylan Griep, Justin Brantmeier, Dineth Gunawardena, and Jacob Lee placed 40th. Teams had 2.5 hours to solve 9 problems of varying difficulty using two laptops. A correct submission to the judges earned either 10, 20, or 40 points, which each incorrect submission received a score of -3.

Thirteen schools brought a total of 49 teams of four students each to the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering Opportunity Conference Computer Programming Competition on Friday, November 20. Teams were given approximately three hours to solve nine problems of varying difficulty using Java. The Whitewater team of Leif Sahyun, Mitch Dalzin, Zach Brantmeier, and Nick Kuzoff placed third after solving eight of the nine problems perfectly. They were edged out at the end of the competition by first place Brookfield Central and second place Menomonee Falls.

Other Whippet teams included the foursome of Gianna Creanza, Callista Hoxie, Gabe Taveira, and Linda Vo who placed 11th, the group of Mia Bentel, Dylan Griep, Devin Samaranayake, and Allison Sedmak who placed 22nd, and the sophomore team of Declin Anderson, Zach Gross, Jacob Korf, and Tyler Marinkovic who finished 34th. Each Whitewater team successfully solved at least four of the nine problems.

Additional schools competing included Cary – Grove (Illinois), Crystal Lake Central (Illinois), Fort Atkinson, Homestead, Janesville Craig, Janesville Parker, Prairie Ridge, Rufus King, Stoughton, and Whitefish Bay.

Congratulations to the computer programming team of Gabe Heller, Wentao Guo, Chamath Gunawardena, and Leif Sahyun for finishing second out of 37 teams at the MSOE Opportunity Conference today.

The computer programming team of Wentao Guo, Gabe Heller, Connor Rupke, and Chamath Gunawardena received their medals from the MSOE Computer Programming competition on November 22. They finished third out of 27 teams.

Twenty-four teams from nine schools competed at the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering Opportunity Conference computer programming competition Friday, November 16, 2012. Whitewater had three teams in the mix. Teams were given 2.5 hours to solve nine programming problems varying in difficulty from a value of 10 points to a value of 40 points. Whitewater's top team finished fifth. The competition was won by Homestead High School in Mequon.

Sixteen advanced computer programming students competed in the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering Opportunity Conference on Friday, November 18, 2011, against students from schools across southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Students worked in teams of four using the Java programming language to solve nine problems of varying difficulties. Each team was given access to two laptops and programmed for two and one-half hours to complete as much work as possible.

Computer science students competed in the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering computer programming competition on Friday, November 19, 2010. Teams of students were given 2.5 hours to solve 9 problems of increasing difficulty. This year's problem set included tasks related to the Fibonacci sequence, congressional apportionment, and the next move in a game of Tetris. The Whitewater team of Kayla, Benjamin, Jimmy, and Ben scored 101 points to finish fourth out of 24 teams.

A team of computer programming students competed at the annual Milwaukee School of Engineering Opportunity Conference on November 20, 2009, finishing second out of 23 teams from all over Southeast Wisconsin. The students were given two and one-half hours to work on nine problems of varying levels of difficulty using two laptops. Following the competition students participated in a presentation on computational thinking.