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& AWARDS
Berks Career &
Technology Center
The following students received
recognition for their achievements
at BCTC for the 2012-13
school year:
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ACADEMIC
RECOGNITION
STUDENTS OF
THE QUARTER
STUDENTS OF THE QUARTER (1ST)
Nick Galiyano –
Welding Technology
Jaquan Gordon – Culinary Arts
STUDENTS OF THE QUARTER (2ND)
Diana Cruz – Cosmetology II
STUDENTS OF THE QUARTER (3RD)
Angel Canela – Automotive
Technology II
Steven Ernst - Mechatronics
Yashira Santos - Cabinetmaking
STUDENTS OF THE QUARTER (4TH)
Billy Schlouch – Service
Occupations
INDIVIDUAL AWARD WINNERS
Gold Medal Winner for the
Pennsylvania Family Career and
Community Leaders of America
Jaquan Gordon – Culinary Arts
Health Occupational
Students of America
Marissa Koch, Third place
Brianne Quigg, Third place
Computer
Department News
• Senior Audrey Ann Blakely won
the 2013 NCWIT National
Runner-Up and the 2013
Philadelphia Area Affiliate
awards (ww2.ncwit.org/award).
Junior Caroline Pattillo won the
2013 Philadelphia Area
Affiliate Runner-Up award. The
competition recognizes young
women at the high-school level
for their computing-related
achievements and interests.
Both girls were honored with
about 10 other award winners at
a dinner reception at Villanova
University on April 3.
• Seniors Kosho Hoshitsuki, Scott
Goldberg, Dakota Lash, and
Chris Geissler competed in the
Future of Computing Contest
(https://sites.google. com/a/temple.edu/fc2013)
at Temple
University on April 13. They
won third place and $250 in the
high school division with an
Android mobile app named
“Project Platoon Fight” that can
be used as a framework for other
developers to build custom
games. All four students are
planning to major in computerrelated
fields in college next
year.
• Ninth graders Jocelyn Dialectos
and Rohan Rai and sophomore
Dylan Thomas competed in the
Reading-Berks Science and
Engineering Fair (www.rbsef.org)
at Albright College Fair on
March 12. Jocelyn won second
place in the “Zoology” division
with “The Effects of Mimicry on
Color of Prey,” Dylan Thomas
won second place in the
“Mathematics and Computing”
division with “Prime Number
Computing Solutions.”
• Forty Wyomissing students in
grades 7-12 formed teams of five
to compete in the wildly popular,
first-ever national cyber-security
Toaster Wars competition
(www.picoctf.com) sponsored by
Carnegie Mellon University and
the National Security Agency.
Wyomissing’s eight teams competed
against more than 1,900
teams nationwide. Wyomissing
Area’s top team of Alan Lu, Gavin
Babb, Alex Shields, Paul Gehret,
and Zachary Miller finished in
314th place. The team of 7th
graders (Sam Botterbusch,
Matthew Driben, Andrew Zhou,
Joe Cullen, and Jack Ambarian)
did phenomenally well beating
three of Wyo’s teams of upperclass
computer science students
and finishing in the top 600
nationally! The National
Security Agency promoted the
contest because of the country’s
dire need to recruit cyber-security
experts as it defends itself
against constant attacks from terrorists,
criminals, and China.
Most of the students were
addicted to solving the online
challenges and can’t wait for the
contest next year.
• Junior Caroline Pattillo and sophomores
Abby Waxler and Katie
Cush traveled to the University
of Pennsylvania on April 19, for
its annual Women in Computer
Science Day. They learned about
career and college opportunities
in fields such as robotics, digital
media, and real-time and embedded
computer systems such as
pacemakers.