Three Central Cambria Computer Teams walked away winners in the 2009 PA State Computer Fair at the Altoona Campus of Penn State on Monday March 9th, 2009. There were 50 school projects entered in this year's regional fair, which was a qualifying event for the State Competition that will be held May 19th, 2009 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Under the direction of Dr. Joseph P. Karwoski, the competitors and their prizes were:
- Team 1: Programming Division - John Salguero, Scott Shay, and Nate Sloan - First Place
- Team 2: Programming Division - Lonnie Ramirez - Second Place
- Team 3: Informative Web Page Design - Collier (John) Devlin - First Place
The High School Competition involves a three-tiered selection process. The first tier occurs at the high school when the school sponsor / advisor selects a maximum of two projects from each of the eight categories to send to the regional fair. At the regional fair, the judges select a first, second, and third place winner. Each of these winning projects will receive an award but only the first place winners will advance to
the state competition at Dickinson College in May. A different team of judges will evaluate the entries on display at Dickinson College. Monetary awards will be given to the projects that place first second, third and honorable mention in each of the categories.
Congratulations to John Salguero, Scott Shay, Nate Sloan, Collier Devlin, and Dr. Karwoski; who will be competing for the state championship this May at Dickinson College.
