The West Virginia Coding Club student team submitted an App for this year’s Congressional App Challenge. For the third year, this national competition has been offered to teams in West Virginia. The Congressional App Challenge is the most prestigious nationwide prize in student computer science with submissions from all over the country.
This is the third year in a row that the WV Coding Club student team has submitted an app they designed and created. Our student team has won the competition the last two years in a row! We are hoping that this year’s submission will again earn the student team a third championship.
This year’s app is named “JAC4” which stands for “Just Another Connect 4”. Creating a game requires many different coding skills including the logic and rules of the game, translating inputs into moves, multiple graphical objects and checking the game state. It also requires significant coding to be able to move game pieces and show them on the screen. They also worked to integrate original music for the App. The students have to make a presentation about their App to submit for the competition.
To see the student team’s presentation of the App, watch it here: JAC4 Presentation
This is another example of what students are gaining by investing in their skills though the West Virginia Coding Club.We wish our WV Coding Club student team the best in this year’s competition and we are excited for what they have learned and experienced though past competitions!