Student Videos of the Programs They Wrote - School Year 2016-17
School Year 2016-17
1. Awards, Contests and Recognitions Three of our young ladies won the coveted JP Morgan Chase "Social Impact" Award for their app - MultiCulti. (It was the second move valuable award given) They competed in the college division (not the high school division)
They competed against 825+ college and post graduate students at the Technica UMD Hackathon Nov 5-6 with students bussed from colleges around the country and Canada. It resulted in being be the largest all-women hackathon in the world to date. ( Read about it here: U.Md News and sponsers: http://gotechnica.org/ )
They had 24 hours to come up with an idea for an app, design it, create it and then present it to judges and angel investors.
They deserve to be recognized and applauded for their accomplishment. They did good. (It also helps that they had a good time and met many other women who are getting involved to make a difference and change the world.)
2. Videos of Their Apps/Games/Programs The students were asked to make a short video of some game or app they created or to try something new. This is what they came up with. (The ones who entered the Congressional App Challenge were allowed to submit that video in it's place, these are the others)
The 2016 Congressional App Challenge
The students were informed of the Congressional App Challenge but were not required to enter it or given extra credit for doing it. Many of them made a good effort and it shows that they were confident enough of their programming skills to enter on their own. Their videos show their creativity, skills and accomplishments.
A. Congressional App Challenge Winning Entries - Steny Hoyer District
1st Place - Alexander Lugo
- Cancer App - Helps determine correlations between individual genes and the effectiveness of cancer research results 2nd, 3rd Places - not yet announced
B. Congressional App Challenge Winning Entries - Donna Edwards District
1st Place - Uzoma Nwanna
- Manager - A manager app that allows you to organize work, school, and/or lifestyle activities
3rd Place - Lillian Peters, Samantha Michael
- Save Your Prince - Save Your Prince is a scratch platform game where Disney Princesses have to go through obstacles to save their Princess
Honorable Mention - Earl Forcey
- Star City Vigilante App - It is based on characters from DC Comics and the TV show "Arrow" on The CW. My game lets the player choose what character or Vigilante from the show they would like to play as they jump from rooftop to rooftop defeating bad guys.
C. Other Congressional App Challenge Entries (grouped in order of completeness and polish) note: It is worth looking at the videos in the first few groupings - MS Chatter, A Lan Chat App - LAN chat app with encryption. Powerful client/server app that runs everywhere
- Learn Japanese - Good learning app with advanced features. Learn Japanese language symbols
- EmpiroPedia - App of the most powerful empires in history ***Watch ***
- Type It! - Excellent typing practice app with many levels from easy to difficult. Professionally done
- Space Dude - well constructed Space Invaders-type game with a good story and extras. Easy to more difficult
- Piano - Interactive piano game - learn the scales and chords
- Learning Basic Spanish for Kids - Educational game - "Colors, Animals, Foods, Body Parts, Classroom Materials and Greetings"
Cute Destruction - a simple but creative game to while away time
Civics App - an app to help study Civics (chatbot, puzzle and various games)
Gallery+ - Create photo albums, tag photos and retrieve them - Game Page - a collection of challenges for young children on numbers, letters and colors
Cure Corp - complex, biology based game, well thought out not yet finished
Cross 'Em Up - a Frogger-like game. Well done with good graphics but video has no sound. She shows process of code development
Chick-en Voyager - frogger-like game but incomplete
Math Hop - Practice math (no voice, no demo, just a Prezi slideshow) but she did do the game)
Videos of their Games/Apps/Programs Grouped in order of completeness and polish note: It is worth looking at the videos in the first few groupings
- Schedule Generator - Records your study habits and helps make a schedule. Time Management App
- Match My Order - Well done video. Fast-paced game, good graphics, good start with some difficult programming problems already solved
- Bomb Defuse - Well done game to try to defuse the bombs before they go off
- Memflash - A memory game to use to improve your memory
- Micey's Adventure - a well assembled suite of games for very young children
- A Text-Based Adventure Game - creative video and effects but only a start
- Maze Game - Nicely done but difficult maze game to solve. You need to find the correct teleporting cubes.
- My Maze Game - Flashing, semi-hidden maze makes it hard to win
- Math Practice App - nicely done video and an excellent app to practice your math.
- The Cookie Jar - creative, fast-paced game with 2 levels and partially finished maze learning tool
- The Kid Named Billy - themed game with a combination of simple challenges
- My Best App - a multi-level drag-n-drop matching game
- My Video - a game where you read and answer questions. it is a different game
- App Video - Olympics Challenge - a litttle bit of everything learned - maze, frogger, drag-n-drop games
- Crossy road - frogger-like game
- Children's Game - hard to hear the speaker
- My Program - fast paced game but sound not loud enough to understand the speaker
- Defeat the Dragon - A text-based game where you make choices
- Color Ninja - creative game but video does not do it justice
- My Game - Poor video, can not hear speaker, short - do not know what game is about
Everyone creates. Not everyone is an expert game creator but everyone learns to program
- Space Time Adventure - Not great video but a different game from the others. somewhat like Space Invaders
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