A team of seventh grade learners gave it their all and brought home a coveted award at the Junior Division of the KidOYO Interdistrict Hackathon on March 31.
The “Magnetized Mineolians” from Mineola Middle School won the award for “Best Capital Defense Project” and took fifth place overall in the competition. The winning team members are Grant Adell, Zalen Parekh, Rachel Fogarty, Knox Pace, Kimberly Sandoval, Joseph Meehan and Jaden Hsiu
The KidOYO Interdistrict Hackathon allows schools across Long Island to compete against one another on various coding challenges. Judges score teams based on criteria including creativity, most detailed, and best game play and all projects are highlighted on a game map. The teams compete against each other by “attacking” other projects and taking over map territory. The team who holds the most territories (has the most points) at the end of the competition wins.
The Mineola team worked collaboratively together to come up with and execute their project, which was created using the Hatch! Coding language.
