{"id":21941,"date":"2014-01-17T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T02:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21941"},"modified":"2021-11-09T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T23:21:58","slug":"uh-hilo-student-wins-national-software-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/17\/uh-hilo-student-wins-national-software-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo student wins national software competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> student <strong>Mike Purvis<\/strong> won first place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsonstudents.com\/codingcontest\/\">Pearson Coding Contest<\/a> and was awarded $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The software competition is open to undergraduate students in the United States. Contestants develop relevant, innovative, creative, functional and original applications that integrate with the Pearson LearningStudio Learning Management System and\/or utilize the LearningStudio application programming interfaces (<abbr>API<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21954\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pearson-check.jpg\" alt=\"3 people holding big check\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pearson-check.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pearson-check-260x193.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Purvis, center, wins the Pearson Coding Contest (photo from the Pearson Coding Contest twitter account, @PearsonCoding)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Purvis developed a module that integrates with existing Drupal university websites and would bring information in about Pearson courses. He utilized a Twilio <abbr>API<\/abbr>&#8217;s to allow students to receive text messages when new course announcements or exams are created. Students could also set goals for their classes and professors could see how the class is doing at reaching their goals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackerleague.org\/hackathons\/pearson-student-coding-contest\/hacks\/mike-purvis\">Go the Pearson Coding Contest website for more on Purvis&#8217; entry.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pearson is a leading learning company that partners with faculty and institutions to create innovative solutions to improve student achievement and institutional effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Purvis was also part of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo team that won the 2013 Imagine Cup U.S. Finals. The team created an app called Help Me Help, which allows users to share photos and information about hazards they may encounter in emergency situations like fires, floods or roadblocks. <\/p>\n<h2>More <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News stories on Purvis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/14\/uh-hilo-app-wins-prestigious-imagine-cup\/\">&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo app wins prestigious Imagine Cup&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/11\/uh-hilo-students-compete-on-world-stage\/\">&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo students compete on world stage&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo student Mike Purvis won first place in the Pearson Coding Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[541,660,14,56],"class_list":["post-21941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-computer-science","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151545,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions\/151545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}