Students from Oceanside’s elementary schools participated in there first hack-a-thon, sponsored by the KidOYO platform. The event was a Skills Dash competition in which sixth graders competed primarily against themselves to assess their coding skills and readiness for future competitions. School Two’s Adam Hassan, whose teacher is Donna Gales, emerged at the top of the leaderboard at the skills dash.
The Oceanside school district is participating in several district-based hack-a-thons. In May, middle-school students in the OMS coding club will test their coding chops alongside Long Island peers at a KidOYO hack-a-thon in Hauppauge. KidOYO is a non-profit that provides platforms for students from kindergarten through college who are learning coding, computer science and engineering, and entrepreneurial learning.