Garfield Computer Science students do amazing things in class, but did you know that they also pursue technical internships, take college computing classes and compete in programming competitions? Take a look at what others have achieved and think about things that you could do to further your computing skills!
AJ was a software engineering intern at Cobalt the summer after his junior year.
Grant interned at Microsoft Research the summer after his junior year.
Alisa interned with the Speech Research group at Microsoft Research.
Emma was a Microsoft intern after taking Exploring Computer Science.
Garfield Teams with Ms Martin (right)
Saturday (10th December) Garfield competed in the NWCSTA Programming Competition, and our teams won 1st & 2nd in Advanced as well as 2nd in Novice categories. taking half of the six medals awarded. We had 26 students compete in our 9 teams and everyone had a great time at the event. The competition was held at UW’s Computer Science building and there were a total of 43 teams from 15 schools from the greater Seattle area.
Besides the competition, the event featured a CS Talk on …
Tracy and George got second place at both programming contests in 2009-2010!
Jenny worked on natural language processing summer ’11.
Emma Meersman learned to build robots at Stanford.
Tracy Whelen was a summer intern at Institute for Systems Biology.
Grant took a week-long game design course at Bellevue College.
Laurie was an intern for Microsoft’s EPX STO team summer ’10.
Najee designed a new resource guide during his summer at Microsoft.
Zach worked for SQL server at Microsoft the summer after his senior year.
Tracy and George got second place at both programming contests in 2009-2010!