Homestead High School takes first place at MSOE

MILWAUKEE, WI (12/04/2012)(readMedia)-- A team of students from Homestead High School in Mequon, Wis., took first place in Milwaukee School of Engineering's annual "OP"portunity Computer Conference. The team, "Team A," was coached by Kathy Connelly. 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 24 teams that participated in the competition. Rufus King High School-Team A (Milwaukee) took second place, and Parker High School-Team A (Janesville, Wis.) took third place in the competition.

MSOE is an independent, non-profit university with about 2,500 students. MSOE offers 20 bachelor's degrees and nine master's degrees in the engineering, engineering technology, building and infrastructure engineering, health-related engineering, computer, business, math-related and nursing fields. The university has a national academic reputation; longstanding ties to business and industry; dedicated professors with real-world experience; extremely high placement rates; and the highest starting and mid-career salaries of any Wisconsin university according to PayScale Inc. MSOE graduates are well-rounded, technologically experienced and highly productive professionals and leaders.