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Vivian Moon ![]() MUSA Council ![]() Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posted: Mar 28 2015 at 7:57pm |
Posted: 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 2015 TechOlympics champions help Lakota East to third
consecutive victory
Staff
Writer Lakota East seniors Zach
Schroeder and Liam Tiemon recently scored individual first-place wins in
TechOlympics 2015, helping the school’s team reach the top spot in the
competition for the third consecutive year. Schroeder and Tiemon
were among the 500 students from 34 high schools who recently took part in this
year’s TechOlympics, the largest IT competition and expo for high school
students in the area. Thirty-five students
from each high school attended the conference with several students helping to
plan and run the event, which was held at the Millennium Hotel in downtown The three-day expo also
allowed students to learn and hone their skills for potential careers. TechOlympics is
sponsored each year by the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, whose mission
is to engineer and execute experiences designed to inspire young talent to
pursue a career in the IT industry in Greater Cincinnati. Besides lectures by
industry leaders, breakout sessions on tech topics and one-on-one “IT&U”
sessions, the conference also offered different levels of competition based on
difficulty. Students earn points for scoring anywhere between first and fifth
place. Many competed in a
variety of IT challenges, with Lakota East stringing together not only
Schroeder and Tiemon’s first-place finishes, but also multiple second- and
third- place individual and team awards. The victories helped the school earn
the first-place trophy for the third straight year. Schroeder won his
first-place award for Mystery Coding, where students don’t know what realm the
problem might be in or what language they might be using. “It’s all kind of up in
the air,” said Dave McKain, Lakota East teacher and INTERalliance coach. “In
the time given, Zach was able to solve the most challenges correctly.” McKain said Schroeder is
a “top tier” computer science student who excels at problem solving and writing
code. “He had an internship
last year at the Kroger data center in Blue Ash, so he wrote code for them over
the summer,” McKain said. “As a high school student, to get to do something
like that for a summer job is just pretty amazing.” Tiemon won first place
in a new competition, Microsoft Touch Development, which gives students a
certain amount of time to see how many different components they can get to
work using a recently developed scripting language used for tablets and
touch-screen computers. McKain said the
competition was well-suited to Tiemon’s way of thinking. “It fit his strengths,”
he said. Tiemon said he started
taking computer science his junior year at Lakota East because he needed
classes to fill his schedule, but admitted he had no idea what he was getting
into. “It was a challenging
class that I really liked because I feel like in school I’m not challenged as
much as I should be,” Tiemon said. “There’s a lot of problem solving, … it
wasn’t a typical ‘find X’ that we did in calculus, it was like ‘find certain steps
that you need to do to get to the answer’ and that really intrigued me because
it was pushing my limits.” McKain said the
INTERalliance program has been “a tremendous boon” by connecting talented
students while they’re still in high school to businesses and corporations in
the Greater Cincinnati area. “There have been a
number of leaders who have been visionary enough to recognize that if you want
to connect with this talent you need to make that connection while they’re
still in high school, because once they go off to college then the amount of
competition that they’re going up against is pretty huge,” McKain said. “By
making these connections early on they’re able to keep these students around
here locally, and they’re discovery that’s a big deal for them.” ·
Zach Schroeder - 1st place (Mystery Coding) and 3rd place (Top
Coder) ·
Liam Tiemon - 1st place (Microsoft TouchDevelop) ·
John Thomas and Bobby Yost – 2nd place (Startup Creation Challenge) ·
Stephen Koclejda – 3rd place (Academic Quiz) ·
Aidan Cole – 2nd place (Microsoft TouchDevelop) ·
Matt Manley – 2nd place (Wiki Races) ·
Brandon Nguyen – 2nd place (Mockup Design) ·
John Thomas, Austin Ahlborn, Zach Schroeder, Thomas Barlow, Noah
Pavuk, Jonathan Sharp and Aidan Cole – 2nd place (Showcase Project) ·
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Tiger Ji – 2nd place (NXT Robotics) The
following students are on the INTERalliance Leadership Council and participated
in the planning and administration of the conference: ·
Lakota East: ·
Lakota West: Stephen Liao (CIO of INTERalliance), Priya Thomas,
Max Pflaumer and Mohamed Emlemdi |
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