Some Hazen High School students have a new reason to be proud. Four students took home honors in a recent computer science competition. Students Alex Guo, Kwing Li, Tiger Cao and McKinnon Williams placed first in both the novice and advance divisions recently at the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association computer programming competition. Over 300 students from all around the region formed 124 teams and spent the day solving computer programming problems.

Hazen High’s team moved ahead of teams from 27 high schools—and, in the final moments, moved in front of teams from Issaquah, Lakeside and Bellevue—to claim first place in the novice division. Cao, who won the novice division last year, placed first in the advance division with the overall high score of the competition, a truly significant accomplishment. In addition, two other Hazen High teams placed in the top ten in the novice division. The event was held at the University of Washington Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering.