IN South Fayette Summer 2014 | Page 57

S South Fayette outh F ayette T South Fayette High School’s 2013 Homecoming King and Queen, Patrick Mancini and Christina Famularo, strike a pose at the Homecoming Dance this school year. afterschool program where students learned to make apps for mobile devices using Java and processing.js text-based language. Each year the course was taught by outside consultants and computer science professors from CMU, and South Fayette offered the course as outreach to visiting districts. This year, two South Fayette students, Radhir Kothuri and Ben Kenawell, designed a new sixweek course using Python language, and taught this course to students from South Fayette and visiting students from Mars School District and Fort Cherry School District. • 9th – 12th Grade: For the last two years South Fayette’s software development team has been working on a pen-based Flashcard application to place on the market for free to help improve teaching and learning. The team has been beta testing the application in K-2 classrooms and is preparing the third iteration of the program which they hope to compl