Cary-Grove High School takes first place at MSOE

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Cary-Grove students pictured with Dr. Eric Durant (left), MSOE computer engineering program director, and their coach Ryan Passaglia (right). Photo by Paul W. Roberts.

MILWAUKEE, WI (12/12/2011)(readMedia)-- A team of students from Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Ill., took first place in Milwaukee School of Engineering's annual "OP"portunity Computer Conference. The team, "Team A," was coached by Ryan Passaglia. The OP Conference gives high school students the opportunity to demonstrate excellence in academic pursuits. The competitions challenge the skills and abilities of students at all levels.

For the OP Computer competition, the four-member teams worked together using a laptop computer to write programs to solve problems of varying levels of difficulty. They were allowed to use either C++ (Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with APCS C++ Classes) or Java (Eclipse) to write their programs. There were 27 teams that participated in the competition. Stoughton High School-Team A (Stoughton, Wis.) took second place, and Parker High School-Team D (Janesville, Wis.) took third place in the competition.

MSOE is an independent university with about 2,500 students. MSOE offers 18 bachelor's degrees and 10 master's degrees in the engineering, engineering technology, building and infrastructure engineering, health-related engineering, computer, business and nursing fields. The university has a national academic reputation; longstanding ties to business and industry; dedicated professors with real-world experience; and extremely high placement rates and the highest starting salaries of any Wisconsin university according to PayScale Inc. MSOE graduates are well-rounded, technologically experienced and highly productive professionals and leaders.