A team from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts is one of 25 teams who have qualified for the ninth Annual All-State Coding Competition that will be held on Monday, April 21.
The team of juniors April Adams of Clinton, Hunter Cox of Vilonia and Mason Vaden of Dardanelle qualified for the 2025 state competition by competing in the All-Region Coding Competition on Feb. 28. A total of 146 teams from across the state participated in regional events earlier this spring to determine 24 participants for the state competition. A team from Conway High School automatically qualified for the state competition after the school produced the first-place team in the 2024 state competition.
The competition features student teams solving coding challenges. Each member of the first-place team in the state competition will receive a $2,000 award that will be deposited in a 529 College Savings Plan. Each member of the second-place team will receive a $1,000 award with third-place earning a $500 award for each member. In addition, the schools that sponsor the first-, second- and third-place teams will receive $10,000, $6,000 and $4,000 respectively to support their computer science programs.
The competition is sponsored by the Arkansas Department of Education.