ACM and CSTA Announce 2023-2024 Cutler-Bell Prize Student Recipients
May 15, 2024
ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) have announced the recipients of the 2023-2024 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing. Four high school students were selected from among a pool of graduating high school seniors throughout the US who applied for the award by submitting a project/artifact that engages modern technology and computer science. A panel of judges selected the recipients based on their projects' ingenuity, complexity, relevancy, and originality
The Cutler-Bell Prize promotes the field of computer science and empowers students to pursue computing challenges beyond the traditional classroom environment. In 2015, David Cutler and Gordon Bell established the award. Cutler is a software engineer, designer, and developer of several operating systems at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bell, an electrical engineer, is Researcher Emeritus at Microsoft Research.
The recipients are: Shobhit Agarwal, Reedy High School, Frisco, Texas; Franziska Borneff, Hidden Valley High School, Cave Spring, Virginia; Daniel Mathew, Poolesville High School, Poolesville, Maryland; and Kosha Upadhyay, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Washington. The winning projects illustrate the diverse applications the next generation of computer scientists are developing.
Each Cutler-Bell Prize winner receives a $10,000 cash prize. The prize amount is sent to the financial aid office of the institution the student will be attending next year and is then put toward each student’s tuition or disbursed. This year’s Cutler-Bell Prize recipients will be formally recognized at the Computer Science Teachers Association’s 2024 Annual Conference, July 16-19, in Las Vegas.
