Winners Announced for the Schubmehl-Prein Essay Contest on the Social Impact of Computing

10/23/2009:

The Schubmehl-Prein Prize for the Best Essay on Social Impact of Computing is a competition open to high-school juniors, and supported by the Schubmehl-Prein Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame. The topic for the 2009 competition was "What are the potential social and ethical implications of the $100 laptop?" Winners of the 2009 Schubmehl-Prein competition have been announced:

First place: Katherine Heit, St Thomas Aquinas High School (Kansas)

Second place: Danielle Harris, Mayfield Senior School (California)

Third place: David Purington, Damien High School(California)

Honorable Mention: Bryan Dongre, Brookfield Senior High (Wisconsin)

Honorable Mention: Erica Smith, St Agnes Academy (Texas)

First-place winner Katie Heit recently visited the Notre Dame campus and met with Professor Kevin Bowyer, chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and one of the organizers of the competition.

More information on the competition, and links to winning entries from previous years, are available on the competition web page,
Schubmehl-Prein Contest.


First-place winner, Katie Heit, with Dr. Kevin Bowyer.