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Main Idea: Establishing a schoolwide programming competition
Description of Possible Ideas
Development Format
A tournament bracket format is another possibility. The teams would all face off in one-on-one competitions where they will both be given the same problem and the first to complete it advances to the next round. all of the questions would be different for each round since the rounds would not be concurrent.
Nease Computing Olympiad
Receive help from Club Volunteers and make the project into a group activity for service hours. Can be much wider scale and split students into groups each with a mentor of the Computing Olympiad.
Club Sponsor is Mr. Kirsche
Supervisors include parents and teachers.
Programming Format
A Time Trials format where the first to solve every problem wins the competition. These students compete by solving a variety of questions. There will be a set amount of questions and the first team to finish the final question will win. All of the students will be given the first question at the same time and after they finish it they will be given the next, and so on and so forth.
Learning Outcomes
Commitment & Perseverance: With such a large scale event there will undoubtedly be many unexpected complications with the competitions that could lead to a lot of stress. However, by pushing through these struggles it will help improve our commitment and perseverance
Challenge and Skills: Organizing an event with so many potential participants will be very challenging, but it will help develop our public speaking and leadership skills through advertising and having to explain the competition to everyone interested.
Initiative and Planning: Gain valuable experiences as you plan out this event yourself and become better acquainted with content creation and instruction. Additionally, since there will potentially be hundreds of participants it will take extensive planning to ensure that goes smoothly.
Collaborative Skills: Even though each team member has different roles and tasks that they are in charge of, we will still need to look over everything and largely work on most things together in order to have a coherent and cohesive event.
Need/Purpose
Why is this project important?
We have always wanted to hold a school wide competition to see who is the best and compete in fun spirited tournaments with our peers. This is the best way to do so and establish who is the champion of the keyboard.
Through this demonstrated, school-wide competition we will attract the eyes of many students who are unfamiliar with programming. By inducing them into a competition, they can get a firsthand view of the thrilling aspects of Computer Science, something that is usually unpopular at this school.
The school has been dull without many stimulants for aspiring Computer Science students and this competition will rejuvenate a Computer Science culture for our school and hopefully attract more interest to fill the empty Computer Science classes at the school.
Who will benefit from this project?
Students who are interested in programming can practice their skills.
We will benefit from this project because we will learn how to host a school-wide competition as well as learn how to interact with other students while being the event coordinators.
The Nease Computing Olympiad club will also benefit from this event since it will also act as a source of advertising for the club.
Participants
Anup Vellanki Public relations and the marketer for the event: Creation of promotional Flyers, Design Graphics for the event, and takes pictures during the competition, serves as photographer. Host one day at Nease High School.
Aneesh Vellanki Event Assistant: Locates materials and competition questions for use. Finds logistics needed for the competition to be enhanced. Sets up the computers before the competition and handles all technical implications. Host one day at Nease High School.
Alex Jamison Event Moderator: Will watch over the participants of the event and make sure there is no cheating. They will essentially act as a referee. Additionally, they will be in charge of making and reviewing the team applications
Thomas Olinger Event Organizer: Reserves the location for competition and speaks to sponsors about procuring the right materials for the competition. Handles the prizes and speaks to the competitors, serves as host of competition.
Service Type
Direct
We will directly affecting the students participating in the competition by providing them with the problems and the opportunities to better themselves
Projected Outcomes
To provide the students of Allen D. Nease with an incentive to explore the world of Computer Science with hopes of winning prizes.
We hope to provide students with the chance to demonstrate their strength in computer science and put their knowledge to the test. This competition will provide them an outlet to view their future competition in computer science job and also figure out what areas they need to improve in
We hope to create a fun experience for all students where they can meet new people with similar interests in computer science.
Skills + Knowledge
IB Learner Attributes
Risk Takers
Caring
Communicators
21st Century Skills
Communication: Articulating thoughts and ideas about programming and initiating the instruction with proficiency so the kids know what they are actually doing.
Decision Making: Reflecting critically on the learning experiences of the kids and trying to make their experience better.
Solve Problems: Clear doubts and even solve any technical difficulties at the competition.
Working Creatively with others: Develop, implement and communicate new creative ideas to the kids effectively.
What will you need to learn?
We will need to practice articulating our ideas better and establish a better competitive experience for all the students participating..
We need to learn the methods of conducting a competition as well as learn how to interact with other students.
ATL Skills
Organization skills
Media Literacy
Collaboration
Interaction
Cas Strands
Creativity
Creative thinking is involved with our completion of different tasks in order to complete the competition. The different problems we make for the competition will have to be creative and original in order to give the students a fun yet challenging experience.
Service
The creation of this competition is completely voluntary and will give students in the school incentive to pursue computer science. Additionally, it will give students with knowledge of computer science a chance to shine in an all inclusive competition. Thus bettering the school community.