Coding

Mentoring Students For The Zero Robotics Galactic Greenhouse Competition

by

This summer I had the chance to mentor students in the Zero Robotics Galactic Greenhouse challenge, where teams programmed NASA’s Astrobee robots to plant, water, and harvest crops in a simulated space greenhouse. The competition works by having students write code that controls the Astrobee in a head-to-head simulation, where every decision such as when … Read more

First Coding Competition

by

I’m thrilled to announce that our team, the Jumping Javas, placed third in the novice division at this year’s Lockheed Martin CodeQuest competition! As first-time participants, we faced the challenge of solving complex programming problems within a strict 2.5-hour time limit. CodeQuest, Lockheed Martin’s premier programming competition, tests high school and college students’ coding abilities, … Read more