Four teams representing 12 students from Fairport High School competed against teams from across New York state in the 6th annual Cornell University High School Computer Programming Contest on April 5.
Fairport’s teams are as follows:
Fairport 1
- Leo Allen
- Ian Dunn
- Greg Herdzik
Fairport 2
- David Munechika
- Ray Fujita
- Kade Carlson
Fairport 3
- Kyle Embling
- Ryan Baker
- Zach Baker
Fairport 4
- Anthony Lombardi
- Greg Paiement
- Sean Grzenda
All are currently in AP Computer Science or took the class last year. During the competition, the students spent three hours writing code using the JAVA language to solve as many problems as they could. The team that solves the most problems wins. Fairport 1 solved four problems and finished 16th out of 62 teams participating. Fairport’s other three teams solved three problems.
This is the fourth year that Jeff Klus, a mathematics and computer science teacher at the high school, has taken students to this contest.
“It was a great experience to compete against other schools and work together as a team to solve each problem,” said David Munechika.
Kade Carlson said, “This competition gave me the opportunity to explore what I want to do for my career.”