The League Of Amazing Programmers Wins Top Honors At Design For San Diego 2017
High School-Aged Students’ Solution for Solving a Complex City Problem [...]
Spring Break Workshops on Channel 10 News!
Local reporter Jared Aarons visited the League at the Malcolm [...]
League Featured in Councilmember Bry February 2017 Newsletter
February 2017 "It was inspiring to learn about the projects young coding students [...]
League Students Place 1st in First Tech Challenge Robotics Competition
January 2017 - On Saturday Jan. 21, a First Tech [...]
Former League Student Visits Classroom
January 2017 Former student Alex Gillespie dropped by to [...]
Carmel Valley engineer runs unique nonprofit school that teaches computer programming to youths
Del Mar Times Newspaper, November 14, 2011 "Former Navy pilot, electrical engineer and computer manufacturer Vic Wintriss has the outrageous idea that children of grade- and middle-school ages can be taught computer programming — and, who knows, might even become the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates — or at least help alleviate a looming national shortage of one million programmers that threatens the current U.S. leadership status in technology." ...read more
Carmel Valley youths win second place at robot competition
Del Mar Times Newspaper, July 12, 2012 "Wintriss Technical School [...]
6th annual International Autonomous Robot Competition features local kids
Del Mar Times July, 2013 “Learning how to write computer programs is something every kid should know in this age of high technology,” Third District San Diego County Supervisor Dave Roberts said as he opened the 6th annual International Autonomous Robot Competition at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park recently.
The LEAGUE of Amazing Programmers: Mentoring the Next Generation of Programming
By: Sherry Booth Freeman, Ph.D. NC State Unniversity "One of the greatest challenges facing the U.S. technology economy today is a crucial shortage of skilled and trained information technology professionals. While there are currently more than half a million open jobs across every industry that require computing skills, employers are only able to fill an estimated 30% of the positions.
Local Students Create Mobile Crime App
Del Mar Times, November 2016
High-crime areas are unfortunately becoming a reality. To help find safe driving routes, a team of students at The League Of Amazing Programmers has created a new app Steer Clear San Diego. The app computes relative danger of a designated route based on local crime data bases. Mentored by teacher Site Mao, the app was written by Ruoya Yan, Matthew Smith, Ryan Nemiroff, TJ Gascho and Nicholas Contreras as part of their level 6 “social good” project.
