MIHS Coding Club is Semifinalist in Three Events at Washington TSA Competition

Mercer Island, WA, April 9, 2025 – The Mercer Island High School Coding Club competed at the Technical Student Association (TSA) Washington State Competition April 2 to April 5 at the Spokane Convention Center.

It was a great trip for the Coding Club. They participated in four events and made it to the semifinal round in three of events, Coding, Video Game Production, and Webmaster - Web Design.

TSA is a national organization with emphasis on 21st Century Skills and leadership integrated with STEM fields. Here is a link to their national website.

Traditionally, the Coding Club has been focused on Website Development, Video Game Production, Coding Onsite Challenges, and Software Development. Last year they had a Fashion Tech Design team compete and this year they had a Biotechnical design team compete.

Category: Game Development (Semifinalist)
Team Members: Jonas Brastad, Gavrilo Odievich, and Ina Song
Challenge:  Kid’s game, 2 to 4 players, playable on one (1) screen and one (1) keyboard at a time
Link to play their game: Caddy Catchers

Category: Webmaster-Website Development (Semifinalist)
Team Members: Derek Borden, Aiden Chen, and Elliot Chang
Challenge: Design a website for a vegan/vegetarian restaurant.  Showcase the restaurant’s approach (such as farm-to-table, preparation processes, and sustainability) to the food served in the restaurant.
Link to their website: TSA MIHS Website Link

Category: Coding (Team 2 Semifinalist)
Team 2 Members: Andrew Fateev and Derek Weiss
Team 1 Members: Derek Borden and Ina Song
Team 3 Members: Hugh Borlden and Theadore Sternberg
Challenge: Use an approved programming language to complete the assigned problems

Category: Biotechnology Design
Team Members: Vivian Gan, Nikita Overchkin, Hugh Borden, and Heechan Kim
Challenge: Tissue Engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biological tissues.