Darien Students Have Strong Showing At Statewide Coding Competition

DARIEN, CT — Members of the Darien High School Programming Club earned a second-place finish at CodeQuest, a statewide coding competition held annually by Lockheed Martin.

The team of Anoushka Muchhal, Hannah Huang and Jason Qin competed against teams from across Connecticut at the event, held in Stratford.

The club also sent three additional teams to the competition, including students Ian Bozzuto, Brady Eldredge, Henry Zaino, Avantika Jain, Aiden Younessian and Oliver Chan.

On its website, Lockheed Martin describes CodeQuest as "an annual computer programming competition where teams of two to three high school students work together to solve problems by using Java, Python, C#, and/or C++ programming to complete the 'quest.' The problem set consists of 20 to 30 challenging problems created by Lockheed Martin engineers and computer programmers."

Members of the Darien High School Programming Club are also scheduled to participate later this month in CyberQuest, a cybersecurity competition hosted by Lockheed Martin at the same location.