Kate Starbird, a professor in the UW Human Centered Design and Engineering department, gave a terrific keynote on "data science" at last Saturday's contest. At the end of her talk, she announced the Paul Allen Computing Challenge. This exciting challenge will act as a bridge between our December and April contests. Students will analyze real Twitter data related to Cyclone Phailin which hit India in mid-October 2013. Participants who complete the challenge will receive great prizes including a Kindle pre-loaded with Paul Allen’s Memoir Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft.
Please post this flyer in your classrooms and encourage your students to participate!
We encourage students to involve their friends who are not currently taking CS courses -- most of the challenges in Part 1 of the challenge can be completed with Excel or other non-programming tools.
Contest information and registration details can be found here. The PACC is organized by a team of local groups that work with data science led by the Living Computer Museum and the PSCSTA. Questions? E-mail Justin Spielmann, Living Computer Museum Education Coordinator at justinS@ livingcomputermuseum.org
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
December 2013 Contest Results
Dozens of teachers and industry volunteers made this event possible. All of your contributions were invaluable to making this event a success. Thank you!
Congratulations to all of our participants! Please share the results and pictures with your students.
Top represented schools were Kamiak and Issaquah with 11 teams each.
Download the contest materials zip file for the contest packet and sample data.
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