Willy Wu and Betsy Pu Win Lincoln Labs National Education Competition

Acton, Mass., Oct. 20, 2013, –Willy Wu of Acton Boxborough Regional High School and Betsy Pu of Lexington High School recently won the first place of the prestigious Lincoln Labs National Education Competition. They are also Kapparate CS03 students, and developed the winning application with Kapparate instructor Ben Pu.

See the winning app here. Kapparate CS03 students Willy Wu and Betsy Pu won 1st place and $3000 with the "KittyByte Challenge" application (competition results). The team of two high school students, including Kapparate instructor Ben Pu, began the project on October 7 when the competition began. They posted the project on Reddit later that week. The project received over 100,000 problem attempts in the first 24 hours of publication.

Current Kapparate students can utilize the new KittyByte app to do their homework assignments via the beta link:http://www.kittybyte.com/students/. To save your problem sets, use the keyboard shortcut ctrl-shift-s on windows or command-shift-s on mac. Students interested in helping with the KittyByte website should contact Ben. We need web designers, artists, and content writers. Tutorials and problems submitted by students will be attributed to the student and distributed freely online.