Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that more than 370 students from SUNY and CUNY schools, competing in more than 70 teams, registered to take part in the Making College Possible Coding Challenge, the first-ever statewide coding competition for SUNY and CUNY students. The challenge invites students to create a digital prototype of a mobile app or website to share information about the Excelsior Scholarship and what “making college possible” means to them. The students, who represent a wide variety of two- and four-year SUNY and CUNY schools across the state, received an official prompt to begin creating their digital prototype on February 14. The first draft of their prototype is due February 27.
More than 70 teams of students from the following SUNY and CUNY schools across the state registered for the competition:
· Alfred State College
· Baruch College
· Borough of Manhattan Community College
· Broome Community College
· Buffalo State University
· City College
· Finger Lakes Community College
· Hunter College
· John Jay College
· LaGuardia Community College
· Lehman College
· New York City College of Technology
· Onondaga Community College
· Queens College
· Stony Brook University
· SUNY Albany
· SUNY Binghamton
· SUNY Fredonia
· SUNY Plattsburgh
· SUNY Sullivan
· Westchester Community College
· York College
