On Friday, May 30, 2025, the Bethpage Bytes, Bethpage High School's Hackathon Team, participated in the KidOyo Code Conquest High School Division Hackathon. The event was hosted at Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and featured seventeen teams from across Long Island.
Formatted in alignment with the board game, Risk, the hackathon challenged teams of eight students to solve programming challenges to earn "territories" during the three-hour long event. An accurate solve earns the team the territory, however, if the judges deem that another team submitted a stronger response, the territory can be awarded to that other team. The team that earned the most points at the end of the challenge was deemed the winner.
In dramatic, come-from-behind fashion, the Bethpage Bytes rallied from a five terriroty deficit in the closing minutes of the competition to ultimately prevail by one territory over Bellmore-Merrick to secure the win! This marks Bethpage Bytes' second KidOyo Code Conquest Hackathon victory, with their other triumph coming in 2023.
Bethpage Bytes was awarded a trophy, that will be on display in the Bethpage High School Main Office until next year's event, where Bethpage High School will serve as hosts and will return for their title defense!
Congratulations to Chris Attard and Leon LaSpina for their mentorship and support of the team and all of the student participants!
Jonathan Ang
Jackson Boyle
Hunter Chinda
Niruben Jimkelly
Aaryan Rupesh
Navreet Singh
Matthew Tusa (Captain)
Jessica Wojnicki
Timelapse of Hackathon Game Board and Leaderboard
