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Goshen Students Participate in Regional Programming Competition
Recently Seth Yoder, Michael Yoder, Jacob Shetler, and Maria Jantz traveled to Findlay, OH to attend a regional programming competition sponsored by the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. They competed against students from schools, in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. During the contest students solved a variety of problems using either C++ or Java.
Informatics Student, Balazs Pirot, Selected For All-Crossroads League Team
In addition to being passionate about computers and informatics, Balazs Pirot passionate about tennis. Balazs Passion and skill are easily visible on the court. The Crossroads League announced its 12 member men's tennis all league team and Balazs Pirot was among the honorees. One of six unanimous selections by the conference coaches, Pirot had a 17-3 overall mark in singles play this fall.
Informatics Students Launch Website Service
Under the CodePurple co-curricular the Informatics Department is launching a new service to upgrade/update websites of Goshen College's academic departments. CodePurple is a subset of mennonite.net and hires GC students to perform various programming and tech-related jobs. CodePurple allows informatics allows to gain professional experience while serving the needs of Goshen College and other organizations. It is led by Peter Miller.
Dr. Palmer selected chair of the Midwest Region of CCSC
Dr Palmer was selected to chair of the Midwest Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC). The Midwest Region includes colleges and universities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, and Northern Kentucky.
From Asunción, Paraguay to Goshen, IN on Bicycle
What can you do with a computer degree from Goshen College? Travel! Micheal Miller is now bicycling from South America to Goshen, IN. He has visited Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru. He is headed to Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.
Electronics Show 2013
The biannual Goshen College electronics/robotics show featured 10 projects created by 28 students for their electronics/robotics course. This year’s show included a 3-D printer, a 3-D scanner, a radio-controlled quadrotor helicopter with a claw, a self-balancing scooter, a brigade of firefighting robots, a self-driving car, a robotic arm that mimics hand movements, a marble sorter, white board drawing machine and a maze-solving robot.
Brianne Donaldson (2005)
Brianne Donaldson (2005 grad) has been appointed the director of the Sikh and Jain Studies Centers at Claremont Lincoln University. Brianne completed her Ph.D. at Claremont in process studies.
2013 MCM Results
Emily Fretz, Andy Clemens, and Daniel Fecher made "Brownies Beyond Compare."
2013 ICMC Results
Eight Goshen College students participated in the Indiana Colleges Mathematics Competition.