CSforGood Competition
Celebrating and recognizing the unbridled imagination of primary and secondary students across the state, the Nextech CSforGood Fall Competition challenges K-12 Hoosier students to innovate, create and build positive change in their schools and local communities.
Working with a teacher sponsor, teams of 3-6 students across three divisions: elementary (K-5), middle (6-8) and high (9-12) school, will submit a technology project – either a software application, website, physical computing device or prototype (digital or paper) – that they created to demonstrate how computer science can be used for good when applied to real problems that affect their schools and communities.
The top four teams from each division will be invited to the Nextech CSforGood Celebration on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, which is during Computer Science Education Week. The finalists will showcase their projects, along with how they honed their problem solving, teamwork and CS skills, to a panel of judges, legislators, policy leaders, influencers and the tech community. One winning team per division will be announced at the end of the event. Each winning team member will be awarded a $200 gift card and teacher sponsors will receive $1,000 to go towards tech for their classrooms.
All projects are due on November 1, 2023 and the top teams will be announced on or by November 8, 2023. Student teams can get started on their projects as soon as they would like. If you need help getting started, view the competition details.
Celebrating and recognizing the unbridled imagination of primary and secondary students across the state, the Nextech CSforGood Fall Competition challenges K-12 Hoosier students to innovate, create and build positive change in their schools and local communities.
Working with a teacher sponsor, teams of 3-6 students across three divisions: elementary (K-5), middle (6-8) and high (9-12) school, will submit a technology project – either a software application, website, physical computing device or prototype (digital or paper) – that they created to demonstrate how computer science can be used for good when applied to real problems that affect their schools and communities.
The top four teams from each division will be invited to the Nextech CSforGood Celebration on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, which is during Computer Science Education Week. The finalists will showcase their projects, along with how they honed their problem solving, teamwork and CS skills, to a panel of judges, legislators, policy leaders, influencers and the tech community. One winning team per division will be announced at the end of the event. Each winning team member will be awarded $200 worth of their choice of tech gear and teacher sponsors will receive $1,000 in tech for their classrooms.
All projects are due on November 1, 2022 and the top teams will be announced on or by November 14, 2022. Student teams can get started on their projects as soon as they would like. If you need help getting started, view the competition details.
2022 Winners
Elementary School
Cold Spring School
Student Description:
Our project name is Cleaning Sunshine, a robot that is used to remove pollution and rewards people for doing their part in the environment. It cleans up trash by taking its robot-arm and picks up the trash, then is put in the trash can attached to the front. It sees the trash can with security cameras, and senses if it’s trash or not.
Middle School
South Vermillion Middle School
Student Description:
This is an app that our counselor can use to check in with all students or a specific group of students she defines as potentially high risk. The app will include a form that will provide data for our counselor to track student emotional progress. The app will also incentivize student checks ins and offer prizes to help students check in on a regular basis. The ability to check in with every student, every day, is nearly impossible. Our App allows our counselor to check in with a large amount of students every day. This is powerful! She will be able to quickly recognize those students who are in immediate need of face to face assistance.
High School
Student Description:
The unavailability of parking spots is rapidly increasing in our school as the student population of WHS increases. This causes more traffic, fuel emissions, and students being late to class. To solve this problem we have created an app allowing students to easily find open parking spots using computer vision software to save time and resources.
