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Creative Computing Showcase 2018

Hundreds of interested faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Biosciences Complex on Thursday April 5th for the Queen’s School of Computing’s annual Creative Computing Showcase. The event highlighted the work of the School’s undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on demos, presentations, and posters from a selection of our courses, with topics including Game Design and Game Technology, 4th year projects, and more.

This year we held a People’s Choice Award and congratulations to:

For Human-Computer Interaction: Volutime by Sean Remedios, Taylor Simpson, Monica Rao, Ann Fernandes, Krysta Peralto (Runner up: Intalksicated by Mariano Elia, Nikita Maydanyuk, Reid Stobo, Sean Tippett, and Henrietta Virag)
For Gaming: Michael Pirie, Migael Tolmie, and Edwin Xu (Runner up: Congwei Chen, Yiwen Feng, and Yitong Liu)
For Research: Xiao Li (Runner up: Nick Radford, Matthew Pollack, Michael Wilson, and Ryan Johnston)

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the participants! A special thanks to Doug Martin, Parvin Mousavi, Aaron Visser, Tom Bradshaw, Ben Hall, Erin Gunsinger, Richard Linley and everyone else who helped make the event run smoothly.

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Photos by Doug Martin. Video by Daniel Hughes.

2017 ECOO and QSC East Regional High School Programming Contest

The School of Computing played host for the fourth time to the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s East Regional High School Programming Contest on April 29th. Nineteen teams of up to four student programmers each participated, attempting to solve four challenging programming problems in the span of three hours. The top five teams from Saturday’s contest are eligible to enter the final in the ECOO programming contest series next month in Toronto. Thanks to all the teams and their coaches for participating.

Congratulations to the winning team from Colonel By Secondary Team 1. Honorable mention to second place Nepean High School, third place St. Patrick’s Catholic High School, fourth place Canterbury High School, and fifth place Colonel By Secondary Team 2. Thanks to School of Computing organizer, Richard Linley, to ECOO’s Chris Kulenkamp who acted as principal score-keeper, to School of Computing Manager, Tom Bradshaw, and to the School’s Karen Knight and Doug Martin.

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Photos by Doug Martin

2017 Invitational High School Programming Contest

Congratulations to Team 1 from St. Theresa Catholic High School, and coach Mr. Daniel Tie Ten Quee for the team’s win in this year’s School of Computing Invitational High School Programming Contest. It was a nail-biting finish as the team slipped into the lead at the very last minute. Thanks to Mr. Tie, and to coaches Mr. Jon Swaine (Sydenham High School), Mr. Matt Smith (Brockville Collegiate Institute), Mr. Jeff Wills (Frontenac Secondary School), and Mr. Robert Chatelain (Leahurst College) for bringing teams to compete in this year’s very successful contest in which 32 students in 8 teams tried to solve four programming problems in three hours. The top teams from the April 3 contest will compete in the Educational Computing Organization Of Ontario’s East Regional Contest, which is also being hosted by the School of Computing, at Queen’s on April 29. Thanks and well done to contest organizer, Richard Linley, to Lynda Moulton, Aaron Visser, Doug Martin, and to School of Computing Manager, Tom Bradshaw.

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Photos by Doug Martin