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 …

Emma was a Microsoft intern after taking Exploring Computer Science.

Alisa interned with the Speech Research group at Microsoft Research.

Grant interned at Microsoft Research the summer after his junior year.

Jenny worked on natural language processing summer ’11.

Laurie was an intern for Microsoft’s EPX STO team summer ’10.

Najee designed a new resource guide during his summer at Microsoft.

Emma Meersman learned to build robots at Stanford.

Zach worked for SQL server at Microsoft the summer after his senior year.

AJ was a software engineering intern at Cobalt the summer after his junior year.