Nansana has approximately 300 students and also serves as a home for orphans, some of whom are refugees from nearby Sudan. Heart for People matched Randall Carter with Nansana School, an elementary school in Uganda run by a man named Segawa. This Skype session was made possible because of Randall Carter's Student Council’s work with Heart for People, an amazing non-profit organization that works with schools in Uganda to support their efforts to educate children. The sheer joy of Nansana’s students had a profound effect on the Randall Carter students. They laughed and joked together as they discovered the unforeseen common ground between them. Both sets of students share a love of science, baseball and reading. However, during the roughly 40 minute conversation, all of the students were laughing together and having great conversations. Their desks are long wooden tables that desperately need replacing, and they have little in the way of technology or the many other comforts we enjoy daily. Many of Nansana’s students are orphans, attend class with approximately 35 students of all ages, wear bright orange and white uniforms, and have very basic classrooms. On April 11th, the Randall Carter Student Council held a Skype session with their new friends at Nansana School in Uganda. The faculty advisor is Wayne Hills Mathematics and Computer Science teacher Neil Ascione. Wayne Hills High School's three person team consists of Seniors, Sangjun Ko and Wilson Chen and Junior, Eli Paul. The feature questions are based on topics from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, as well as complex programming challenges. This year's contest will be held at Barrington High School in Barrington, Rhode Island. Through three contests this year, Wayne Hills High School team scored 87 out of a possible 90 points which tied them for the third highest point total globally and first in the division, which includes teams from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The ACSL invites only the highest scoring teams from the regular season to its All-Star Contest for a face-to-face competition featuring written questions and programming challenges with strict time limits. The Wayne Hills High School Senior 3 Computer Science team participated in the American Computer Science League (ACSL) and qualified for this year's prestigious ACSL All-Star Contest.
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