After receiving positive feedback from students, the school hosted its second Hackathon of the year where students applied programming skills to creative projects Feb. 15 to 16 in the Mudd Library, Hackathon...
Students coded for 36 hours to develop their own programs as part of the third annual Hackathon hosted Feb.16 to 17.
The event, led by Rehaan Furniturewala '19 and Sarah Wilen '19, featured workshops...
Female computer science students from both the upper and middle school campuses visited SpaceX on March 16.
Programming and math teacher Jessica Kaufman chaperoned the 20 girls who attended the trip.
The...
NASA's Lead Data Scientist for Business Operations Laura Siahaan spoke to Girls Who Code club members and other students about working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and how girls interested in...
As Kat Edminston ’17 scanned her Advanced Placement Microeconomics and Macroeconomics class on the first day of school, she realized she was one of three girls in the class. A few weeks later, the other...
Google employee and programmer James Stout spoke about the programming formulas and principles behind Google’s self-driving car to computer science classes March 4.
Stout, who is a software engineering...
In the robotics room, a 3D printer beeps and whirrs, robots perch on every surface possible and students are hard at work preparing for another robotics competition. Members of the robotics team are working...
Computer Science teacher Jason Fieldman ’98 is leaving after two years of teaching to resume his previous career as a professional programmer for startups.
Fieldman has taught Design and Data Structures...
Justin Rose ’17 was one of 12 students in the world to receive a perfect score on the 2014 AP Computer Science Exam.
Rose was one of two freshmen from Harvard-Westlake to take the exam last year. To...
In all of the college information sessions and discussions about college, Riya Garg ’15 finds one constant theme: The number of Advanced Placement classes and rigor of a schedule is always a main focus....
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson arrived at the large, black-glass building in northern California that housed Google headquarters. In this scene in the movie "The Internship," a fictional comedy, Vaughn and...
Flipping through a 2013-2014 curriculum guide, Laura Campbell ’16 landed on AP Computer Science A, a college-level programming course that teaches object-oriented software design as well as Java. Campbell...
