Mission: coding

The Hunters Creek Cougar Coders won first place in Texas in the Wonder League Robotics Competition. The group is made up of third, fourth and fifth graders and lead by teachers Mac Rozzell and Jessica (Wright) Murphy. The Cougar Coders spent two months using a coding program to solve missions. The team will advance to a final round, where they must solve a mission using the most efficient code. Pictured are the Cougar Coders team: (front row, from left) Diego Carrasco-Torres, Miles Tucker, Zoe Lai, Violet Smith; (top row) Lexy Whitefield, Shepherd Scimemi, Kylee Pham, Tanush Paradeshi and Smith Zarich.

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