COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT AWARD WINNERS
Fall 2020- Spring 2021
Julie Chen ('21) - Awarded the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship - $40,000 ($10,000 per year) and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon upon completion of herfreshman year. She was choosen for "her accomplishments, hard work, and bright future in the field of computer science."
Justin Tresvalles ('21) and Raphaelle Hoang ('21) - Congressional App Challenge - Congressional District Winners for their COVID Compass App.
https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/20-NJ02
Summer 2020
Julie Chen ('21) & Karen Nguyen ('21) - partnered with Kean University and were funded by the National Center for Women and Information Technology ($2000 grant) to host their own week long coding program. Their workshop, Aspiring Programmers, provided 20 young students (grades 2nd-7th throughout the state) the opportunity to learn about computer science. This was a remote workshop that was hosted using Zoom, Discord, and code.org. Participants learned how to code simple apps and games. Overall, the program was an introductory course that was intended to inspire children to take an interest in programming.
Vicky Zheng ('20) - was accepted to and participated in Google's Computer Science Institute.
Spring 2020
Julie Chen ('21), Kaysey Nguyen ('20), Samantha Phung ('21), Vicky Zheng ('20) - represented EHTHS in the final round of the Girls Go CyberStart Security National Competition.
Raza Abbas ('20), Sakhi Shah ('20), and Vicky Zheng ('20) - Awarded the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship - $40,000 ($10,000 per year) and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon upon completion of their freshman year. They were choosen for "his/her accomplishments, hard work, and bright future in the field of computer science."
Winter 2020
Julie Chen ('21), Ruby Lieu ('21), Karen Nguyen ('21), Samantha Phung ('21), and Sophia Rodriguez ('21) - attended TechTogether Boston, an all female, femme and non-binary hackathon. The team competed in the category Best Social Good Hack and won. Their hack was a website they designed using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and JQuery.
Fall 2019
Angelina Quach ('20), Tasmia Rahman ('20), and Sarah Serneabad ('20) - Attended TechTogether (https://newyork.techtogether.io/) at Queens College in NYC. They won the Best High School Hack Developed Website
Vicky Zheng ('20) - Presented with her team their Governor's School of Engineering Paper on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Human-Powered Oscillatory Motion at MIT's Undergraduate Research Conference
Raza Abbas ('20), Regina Chau ('20), Julie Chen ('21), Nathan Ho ('20), Karen Nguyen ('20), Emily Pang ('20), Sakhi Shah ('20), Isabella Zhang ('20), Vicky Zheng ('20) Attended Penn Apps (University of Pennyslvania's Hackathon)
Spring 2019
Julie Chen ('21), Emily Pang ('20), Samantha Phung ('21), Vicky Zheng ('20) - qualified for and participated in Girls Go CyberStart Cyber Security National Competition. Finished in the top 10 for the state of NJ.
For her individual success during the team competition, Vicky was awarded a $500 scholarship!
Samantha Scalese ('19) - Awarded the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship - $40,000 ($10,000 per year) and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon upon completion of her freshman year. She was 1 of 100 winners selected from a pool of 25,000 applicants. She was choosen for "her accomplishments, hard work, and bright future in the field of computer science."
Vicky Zheng ('20) - Published in CSTA The Voice (March 2019), the National Computer Science Teacher Association Quarterly Publication
https://www.csteachers.org/page/CSTAVoice
Sakhi Shah ('20) & Raza Abbas ('20) - Received $1,000 mini grant from AI4All Organization. Hosted three Artificial Intelligence Workshops
Vicky Zheng ('20), Regina Chau ('20), Emily Pang ('20), Julie Chen ('21), Sakhi Shah ('20), Shivani Desai ('20), Sarah Serneabad ('20), and Anya Gowda ('20) - attend FemmeHacks, female hackthon at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vicky Zheng ('20), Regina Chau ('20), Emily Pang ('20), Julie Chen ('21) - won Best Beginner Hack with their App Street Smart
Fall 2018
Vicky Zheng ('20) - Organized HackEHT - Inaugural Middle School Hackathon
Jasia Abbas ('20), Raza Abbas ('20). Eddie Chen ('20). Julie Chen ('21), Nathan Ho ('20), Samathana Phung ('21), Sakhi Shah ('20), Angelina Quach ('20) - Presented workshops at HackEHT
Alex Cohen ('19), Leo Shao ('19), and Vicky Zheng ('20) - Congressional App Challenge - Congressional District Winners!
Samantha Phung ('21) - participated in Congressional App Challenge
Alex Cohen ('19), Eric Lieu ('19), Sheikh Mahmud ('19), Leo Shao ('19), Jarod Wille, and Vicky Zheng ('20) - attended Penn Apps XVIII @ University of Pennsylvania
Summer 2018
Sarah Phung ('18) - Poster Presentation at 2018 ISTE Conference in Chicago, IL. - highlighted her chatbot idea and its current state. Discussed experience participating in ISTE AI Chatbot Pilot Program.
Sakhi Shah ('20) and Raza Abbas ('20) - AI4ALL @ Princeton University
Winter 2018
Samantha Phung ('21), Sarah Phung ('18), Jasia Abbas ('20), Emily Pang ('20), Regina Chau ('20), and Vicky Zheng ('20) - GirlsGoCyberStart: participated in online cybersecurity competition
NJ FBLA COMPETITIVE EVENTS 2017-18
Leo Shao ('19) and Vicky Zheng ('20) - 2nd Place Mobile Application Development Competitive Event and Nationals Finalist
Akash Thaker ('18) - 3rd Place Software Design Competitive Event
Jaysson Solano ('18), Sam Liang ('19), and Eric Lieu ('19) - 2nd Place Video Game Design Competitive Event
Eric Lieu ('19), Joshua Sennet ('18), Leo Shao ('19), Akash Thaker ('18), and Vicky Zheng ('20) were accepted to and attended PennApps XVII, University of Pennsylvania's Hackathon.
Fall 2017
StockHack 2017
Other Participants in StockHack included: Gabriel Ybanez, Eric Lieu, David Serback, Jacob Shobe, Sarah Phung, Akash Thaker, Eddie Tran, Eddie Chen, Raza Abbas, Nathan Ho, Borna Nouri, and Jeremy Laboy
Christian Kline, Nicholas Michelette, Joshua Sennet, Jaysson Solano,and James Vu ('18) were accepted to and attended PennApps XVI, University of Pennsylvania's Hackathon.
Rohan Gonthkar ('21), Michelle Villamil ('18), Selina Zheng ('19), and Vicky Zheng ('20) participated in the Future of Technology Summit Essay 2017 Competition: https://fts2017.literatu.com/
Summer 2017
Summer Enrichment - Computer Science and Problem Solving
Sarah Phung ('18), Samantha Phung ('21), and Akash Thaker ('18) volunteered to instruct and mentor K-8 students during the EHTEA Summer Enrichment Program.
Spring 2017
Computer Science students presented at EHT School District Innovation Summit
- Sarah Phung ('18) & JT Kurtz ('17) - A to B Travel App Developed at StockHack
- Mostafa Gad ('18) & Nathaniel Master ('18) - 3D Printed Objects
- Rachel Roesch('18) - FBLA Video Game Design using KODU
- Jaysson Solano ('18) - Virtual World Development using Unity
FBLA COMPETITIVE EVENTS 2016-17
National Leadership Conference 6th Place Winners: E-Business - Melissa Duff ('19) and Emily Rudolph ('19)
Designed a Web Page for an On-Line Yard Sale to defray the cost of attending FBLA National Leadership Conference
NJ State 5th place - Software Design Competition - Akash Thaker ('18)
Winter 2017
JT Kurtz ('17), Sarah Phung ('18), and Akash Thaker ('18) won the Design Challenge Category at StockHack 2017, Stockton University's Hackathon.
Eddie Tran ('19) won the Software Challenge Category at StockHack 2017, Stockton University's Hackathon
Other Participants in StockHack included: Leo Shao, Akash Patel, Alex Cohen, Eddie Chen, Jabryl Guy, Jaysson Solano, John Moller, Nathan Ho, Guy Pastrana, Vicky Zheng, Raymond Xue, Nicole Tavormina, Sheikh Mahmud, Samantha Scalese, Samita Islam, Sam Liang, and Nathaniel Masters.
Anne Mkrtchyan ('17) attended Brown University's Hackathon (Hack@Brown) on February 4th-5th.
Jaysson Solano, Christian Kline, and Joshua Sennett ('18) were accepted to and attended PennApps, the University of Pennsylvania Hackathon.
Fall 2016
Jaysson Solano ('18) was accepted to and attended PennApps, the University of Pennsylvania Hackathon.
Anne Mkrtchyan ('17) was accepted into the New Jersey Governor's STEM Scholars Program.
Summer 2016
Summer Enrichment - Computer Science and Problem Solving
Anne Mkrtchyan ('17), Akash Thaker ('18), Rachel Roesch ('18) & Sarah Phung ('18) volunteered to instruct and mentor K-8 students during the EHTEA Summer Enrichment Program.
Anne Mkrtchyan ('17) and Akash Thaker ('18) completed an internship at the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA).
Spring 2016
FBLA COMPETITIVE EVENTS 2015-16
NJ STATE 4TH PLACE IN VIDEO GAME SIMULATION COMPETITIVE EVENT
Sarah Phung & Rachel Roesch
Winter 2016
ConnecTech Presentation: Students participated in our district wide professional development day by presenting a workshop to K-12 educators on popular student mobile apps and how they might be used in the classroom.
Presenters: Christian Ireland, Aqib Nobi, JT Kurtz, Akash Thaker, Anne Mkrtchyan, and Mary Sadallah
Fall 2015
Cindy Luo ('16) and Anne Mkrtchyan ('17) were both accepted to and attended PennApps, the University of Pennsylvania Hackathon. Congratulations Cindy and Anne!
Summer 2015
Selina Li ('16) completed a technology internship at the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)
Cindy Luo ('16) participated in Technology Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anne Mkrtchyan ('17) was accepted into Princeton University's 2015 Summer Program in Algorithmic and Combinational Thinking (PACT) hosted by the Center for Computational Intractability at Princeton University.
NJ GOVERNORS' SCHOOL AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Sakhi Shah ('20) - accepted into New Jersey Governor's Science School
Vicky Zheng ('20) - accepted into New Jersey Governor's Engineering School
Sheikh Mahmud ('19) - accepted into New Jersey Governor's Engineering School
Rachel Roesch ('18) - accepted into New Jersey Governor's STEM School
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTING MEDAL AND SCHOLARSHIP
2017 SARAH PHUNG
2017 AKASH THAKER
2015 ANJELICA GACAYAN
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP
2017 RACHEL ROESCH
NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY ASPIRATIONS IN COMPUTING NCWIT AWARDEES
2021 NATIONAL HONORABLE MENTION & PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - JULIE CHEN
2021 NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - DHARMA UPADHYAY
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - RUBY LIEU
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - VINITA ACHARYA
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - MACY JIANG
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - SAMANTHA PHUNG
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - ISABELLA ZHANG
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE RISING STAR - EMMA LYNCH
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE RISING STAR - XITLALY PRADO
2021 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE RISING STAR - SOPHIA RODRIGUEZ
2020 NATIONAL HONORABLE MENTION - EMILY PANG
2020 NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - JONNA GACAYA
2020 NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - KAREN NGUYEN
2020 NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - KAYSEY NGUYEN
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - JULIE CHEN
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - TASMIA RAHMAN
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SAKHI SHAH
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - VICKY ZHENG
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - JASIA ABBAS
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - SHEIKH MAHMUD
2020 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE RISING STAR - SAMANTHA PHUNG
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SAMANTHA SCALESE
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SAKHI SHAH
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - VICKY ZHENG
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - JULIA KEATING
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - JULIA CHEN
2019 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE RISING STAR - SAMANTHA PHUNG
2018 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SARAH PHUNG
2018 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SAMANTHA PHUNG
2018 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE WINNER - SHEIKH MAHMUD
2018 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - VICKY ZHENG
2018 PHILADELPHIA AFFILIATE HONORABLE MENTION - BETH ANNE CASTELLANO
2017 GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL WINNER- RACHEL ROESCH
2017 GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL WINNER- SHEIKH MAHMUD
2017 GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL RUNNER UP - ANNE MKRTCHYAN
2016 NATIONAL RUNNER UP & GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER - CINDY LUO
2016 GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL WINNER- EMILY HUA
2016 GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL WINNER- SELINA LI
2016 CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - AMANDA HIN
2016 CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION - MARY SADALLAH
2015 - NATIONAL RUNNER UP & GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER-CINDY LUO
2015 - NATIONAL RUNNER UP & GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER - ANJELICA GACAYAN
2015 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER - ANNE MKRTCHYAN
2015 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - LAURA SANSOM
2015 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - JENNIFER MENJIVAR
2015 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - RACHEL ROESCH
2014 - NATIONAL RUNNER UP & GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER-CINDY LUO
2014 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - HANNAH RICHMAN
2014 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - RHEA CHRISTMAS
2014 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER UP - SUNNIE YOUSAF
2013 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WINNER - MELANIE RYNSHALL
2013 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER-UP - VI NGUYEN
2012 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER-UP - AMY NOOR
2012 - GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION RUNNER-UP - CHRISTINA KONTONICOLAS
COMPUTER SCIENCE PRINCIPAL AWARD
2021-2022 John Paul Nguyen
2020-2021 Samantha Phung
2019-2020 Vicky Zheng
2018-2019 Leo Shao
2017-2018 Sarah Phung
2016-2017 Anne Mkrtchyan
2015-2016 Selina Li
2014-2015 Anjelica Gacayan
2013-2014 Vincent Grasty
2012-2013 Parth Parikh
2011-2012 Matt Moseley