A team from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts won top honors at the 2026 Arkansas State Coding Competition.
The team of junior Moses Coronado of Lonoke, senior Colton Melson of Springdale and sophomore Logan Viveiros of Morrilton placed first at the 10th annual event which was held at the Arch Ford Education Service Cooperative in Plumerville on March 31. The competition was open to all public, private and homeschooled students in the eighth through 12th grades. Schools were eligible to enter one team with up to three team members.
The competition featured coding challenges of varying difficulty levels and point values. Only one student at a time was allowed to access the computer to enter solutions, which could be created using any programming language or development environment on their local machine. Teams were not allowed to use AI generative models during the competition.
First-place team members were awarded $1,500 in an Arkansas 529 College Savings Plan. ASMSA was awarded $4,000 to be used to support computer science programming at the school.