Maria Jantz, an interdisciplinary major with an interest in informatics was recently selected as one of 20 college students to attend the 2013 ReCharge! retreat, a meeting of rising young leaders in the sustainable energy sector. The retreat is associated with Focus the Nation, a national non-profit clean energy organization that seeks to empower young people.
Ezra Ocubamichael recently wrote a mobile App to help Goshen College Physical plant register vehicles. This Vehicle Registration App is a proof of concept App. The App functions, but Goshen College has not yet adopted it for official use. The app would allow students and faculty to use their iPads to register vehicles.
This app was written by Caleb Hochstetler. It is modeled after the classic Pong game. It is a one player game where a person plays pin pong against the computer.
This app was written by Physics major Micah Miller-Eshleman in Goshen College's Mobile App Development course. This app is used to estimate the height of an unknown object in a picture based on the height of of a known object.
Goshen College recently introduced a new Informatics cognate for students wanting to apply computer technology to the needs of nonprofit organizations and church agencies. If you would like to use computers to work for justice, create peace, and resolve conflicts this is the major for you. This cognate will be available starting in the Fall of 2012.
Graduating Senior, Ryan Troyer, completed a Cherry Sundae game that runs on iPad and iPhones in Goshen College’s Mobile Apps course. In this game your objective is to accumulate as many points as possible. The points increase regularly as you play.
Want to Learn How to Write Your Own iPad Apps? Enroll in Goshen College's: INFO 200 ( Informatics I) course this Fall. Course meets MWF 1 PM – 1:50PM.
In Programming I, John Miller wrote a program that mimics a piece of writing. The program reads in a text file containing the piece to be mimicked and then generates a "similar" piece of literature. John developed functions that would compose new stories or new poems based on the original text.
This StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Sound Board was completed by Stuart Graber while studying Objective-C at Goshen College. It is a simple iPhone app where you press a button to play a short sound clip. It features sounds of Terrans, Protoss, and Zergs.
Lynn Osborne recently completed this game where a player attempts to save babies from a bunch of snakes that are about to eat them.
