Team Freehold

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

WE WON! -- now announcing top contributing members

	name	Units
	Anastacio Puzon	111
	Brett Harvey	75
	harokb	60
	Liezl Puzon	53
	Lucy Puzon	51
	Saša Ivanović	49

These are the official results that Udacity officials have sent to me. The top three contributors, Anastacio Puzon, Brett Harvey, and harokb, will be emailed their Chase gift cards in the amounts of $50, $35, and $25 , respectively (Udacity allowed me to have that information to send the prize). Winners, be sure to check your emails for the instructions to receive your prize! They should be sent within a week. Please contact me if you have any problems, I will have all the electronic receipts and will be able to fix any problem you might have with Chase. And don't worry, Chase will handle the card-sending, so I won't be seeing the e-gift card codes.

Congratulations everyone, and thanks for all your hard work. We placed 3rd in the overall competition, if you didn't already know that.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

#3 in Units Completed!

From Jason Soll of udacity.com

Great job guys!

Dear Udacians,

I'm proud to unveil the official rankings for the Udacity High School Challenge! Here are the top 50 teams, ranked by how many course units have been completed this summer. Many teams are in the running for the top seven. With only 11 days left in the competition, keep working through your courses and encouraging your teammates to keep up the pace!

Rankings	Teams	Units Completed
1	Team Renaissance	761
2	NYC	679
3	Team Freehold	633
4	Waltz	510
5	Jusix	322
6	Stuy CS	314
7	Lincroft Statement	263
8	DEE35	259
9	Daphne and Aaron	250
10	Stuyvesant High School	243
11	FlyingNinjas	221
12	WHS	213
13	Täisring	155
14	Cerebral	145
15	The Nerdfighters	143
16	AB2013	140
17	Walnut High School	133
18	The Innovators	127
19	Team Apex Dinosaur Helicopter	118
20	Pittsford Sutherland	116
21	Swagstangs	114
22	Mighty High School Force	109
23	gdtop	107
24	~Serendipity	96
25	LRIS	93
26	Gerard's Team	89
27	Phillips Exeter Academy	84
28	The Denominators	80
29	Team Unreal Dragon	78
30	BNDS	75
31	CatUdacity	67
32	UFT Team	66
33	sciencelab	66
34	Phi	65
35	GM FORCES UNITE	63
36	MARSVISTA	62
37	PyFrikiTeam	62
38	Team Pennsbury	61
39	Freedom	60
40	Smart rams	58
41	NW Students	57
42	Team Horace Mann	55
43	HomeSchool Champions	52
44	Bringing Back the Flux	50
45	TuniGravity	50
46	The Omega Directive	48
47	The Americans	46
48	Battlefield High School	45
49	Noe Zevallos	42
50	Vietnamese Warriors of the East	42

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Udacity Video

A project I made for a Public Speaking course at Rutgers. Assignment was a 5 minute video on any topic of choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-V5A_iHCU

Learn more about Udacity, if you don't already know about it. This video is for absolute beginners. It will bore you to death if you've already figured out how to use Udacity.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Rewarding You!

It’s been a few weeks since the High School Challenge started, but Nick and I want to reward our team members for completing courses. So, we’re going to have a little competition within our team, with 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place for the most units completed. Winners get a Chase Visa gift card, which will be sent via email. 1^st receives a $50 gift card, 2^nd gets a $35 gift card, and 3^rd receives a $25 gift card.* These cards can be used online and internationally at places that accept Visa debit cards (https://www.chasegiftcard.com/index.cfm?pageid=g04&%%sessiontoken%% #12).

Just to clarify, Udacity admins say they send us the units each member completed, so the amount that they send us is what will count for this contest, so you may want to check with them to make sure which units you have completed for our team (I don't know if they send leaders total units you've done, or just those completed while on our team). Make sure you are completing each unit 100%. We use the number of units completed that Udacity sends to us as the number completed for this

Do not cheat by looking at the answers before answering the questions yourselves just to get through units. If you are flagged for cheating by Udacity, you will be ineligible for this competition.

*In the case of a tie, gift card amounts will be split equally.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Unit Progress

To check if your unit counts for a point, just make sure each unit is 100% complete on the progress page for that specific course. It's at the link bar at the top of each respective course:

The % correct doesn't necessarily have to be 100% though.

This is from a TA on the CS101 discussion forums -- "Completed unit is a unit where you have all green checkmarks, so, if you have couple of yellow dots, go back and watch them to complete the unit. It's ok, if you got some quizzes wrong, what counts is that you tried. Team members should list their full names, as far as I know."

About

You're probably reading this because you've already joined the team, or somehow found out about us. Anyway, here's a little about us, Udacity, and this high school challenge.

I am Liezl Puzon, and my co-leader is Nick Lum. We both go to Freehold High School in Freehold, NJ. He goes to the Computer Science Academy and I go to the Medical Sciences Learning Center (but we both participate in our school's American Computer Science League). Last year and this year, I placed first in regular season and he placed second (just a point away). We are leading this team for a high school challenge directed by Udacity.com. I could potentially win a trip to Stanford. All we have to do is organize a team of as many people as we can, and when a team member (who can be any age) finishes a course unit, they score a point for our team.

You don't have to be in high school to join the team.

To sign up:
1. Create an account with your full name on Udacity.com
2. Confirm your account through your email.
3. Click this link: http://www.udacity.com/hschallenge/team/join/agpzfnVkYWNpdHl1cg0LEgRVc2VyGK3jnQUM

It really only takes a moment of your time! Then you will have an account and any class you complete before August 26th will count towards our team total. There is no pressure, and if you can't complete a course that is perfectly fine. It won't hurt our team or anything.

If you saw this please sign up and complete at least one unit of one course :)
Intro courses are pretty easy, but are good for refreshing your memory and can still teach you something new!

Please feel free to ask any questions. I will reply! Send me questions at liezl.200@gmail.com.

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More about us and Udacity:

Udacity is not just for this one challenge.

Friday, June 29, 2012

We're #2!!!

Another email from Jason Soll

Good morning! I hope you all enjoyed your first week of the Udacity High School Challenge competition! Here are some competition updates:

-There are currently over 340 teams competing with over 1,400 students.

Team leaders, you rock!

-Here is a list of the top 25 largest teams. Walnut High School is currently the largest with 42 team members!

1	Walnut High School
2	Team Freehold
3	Team Apex Dinosaur Helicopter
4	FlyingNinjas
5	Jusix
6	Cerebral
7	~Serendipity
8	Mighty High School Force
9	Lincroft Statement
10	WHS
11	The Nerdfighters
12	Pittsford Sutherland
13	Noe Zevallos
14	DVHS
15	Stuyvesant High School
16	Team Renaissance
17	india-IIT
18	Swagstangs
19	Team Unreal Dragon
20	Cruisers
21	Bringing Back the Flux
22	Phillips Exeter Academy
23	CatUdacity
24	Team Lotafun
25	Täisring

Although we are only 3 members behind the top team, the points from completing courses is what counts the most, and the teams ranked lower than us are probably really close behind. What we should do is step up our game. Our team is counting on you guys.