Activity 1.4. Hawaii-Pacific student participation in national and regional computing competitions

The Alliance promotes Hawai'i-Pacific student participation in regional and national data science and computing competitions, recognizing that these competitions can be personally and scientifically transformative for our students

38 Alliance students have participated in computing competitions to date, including 21 women, 30% indigenous Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders and 6 veterans

Participating students have been from Hawaii (3 universities), Maryland, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, California, Texas and Oregon

Alliance faculty have co-developed several new computing competition opportunities:

  • Advanced Computing for Social Change (Texas Advanced Computing Center, PEARC)

  • Advanced Computing for Social Change Pacific (Chaminade, Texas Advanced Computing Center, PEARC)

  • BIONIC I, II and III Misinformation and Disinformation Challenges (Chaminade, Bowie State Influence Operations National Innovation Center)

  • Chaminade students will also participate in the 2024 Kanehekili Datathon (University of Hawaii and National Security Agency)

Chaminade Data Science and Computer Science double major (and ROTC Cadet) Wilneris Carrion-Colon won first place in the 2023 BIONIC II Misinformation/Disinformation Challenge. Wilneris’s challenge project examines state-actor disinformation campaigns targeting childhood vaccination rates in the Philippines..

Competition participants: Geographical Distribution