Recognizing Arkansas Schools in Coding Competition

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Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and Arts, Conway High School, eStem Charter High School, Little Rock Central High School, and North Little Rock Center for Excellence for advancing to the state coding competition.

Out of more than 160 teams, these five are part of 16 teams that were selected to advance to the state competition.

The top three finishing teams will receive monetary rewards of $2,000 for first place, $1,000 for second place, and $500 for third place for each member of the team.

The money will be placed in a 529 college savings plan account to help those students with their journey towards earning a college degree.

I thank the Our Kids Code for providing the grant money for the winning teams, and I congratulate the students for qualifying for the state competition.

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