Bothell and Inglemoor High School computer students named “Hunt the Wumpus” winners

Bothell and Inglemoor High School C# computer program students won four of five trophies awarded at Microsoft’s “Hunt the Wumpus” computer game design competition held June 7 in Redmond.

June 20, 2013 12:40 pm
Bothell and Inglemoor High School C# computer program students won four of five trophies awarded at Microsoft’s “Hunt the Wumpus” computer game design competition held June 7 in Redmond.
Bothell and Inglemoor High School C# computer program students won four of five trophies awarded at Microsoft’s “Hunt the Wumpus” computer game design competition held June 7 in Redmond.

Bothell and Inglemoor High School C# computer program students won four of five trophies awarded at Microsoft’s “Hunt the Wumpus” computer game design competition held June 7 in Redmond.

For the past two-plus months, 66 Bothell and 57 Inglemoor students were hard at work on their C# computer programs in anticipation of the Microsoft competition. Working in teams, each computer game design project was judged by two Microsoft software engineers, one focusing on game play and the other on the quality of the underlying C# code.

Bothell’s Cameron Doane, Dominic Brown, Joseph Prachar, Trevor McAllister-Day and Peter Berge won the “Most Innovative” trophy and Bothell’s Isaac Renfrow, Anton Nachmanson, Alon Patashnik, Kien Chin and Michael Dulin won the “Best Implementation” trophy.

Bothell’s Alex Anderson, Brendan Waltman, Nick Hosler, Kevin Yarnell and Corey Floberg and Inglemoor’s Kyle McCrohan, Alex DeJardin, Jenny Liu, Christian Amer, Alnur Elberier and Matt Alexander each won two of three possible runner-up trophies. Bothell and Inglemoor teams competed against teams from Redmond, Interlake and Newport high schools.