The Bridgewater-Raritan High School CODE Club held its first meeting of the school year on Monday, September.

CODE stands for Create, Outline, Develop, and Enhance.

At the meeting, the officer board outlined their plans for the year. These included getting members into national competitions, like the American Computer Science League (ACSL) and the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO). Moreover, the club is planning to assemble a team to compete in the National Cyber League challenge. The club offers its members a vast library of resources, helping them get into programming and advancing professionally.

This year, the officer board consists of Co-Presidents Kinshuk and Saanvi Goel, seniors; Secretary Ayushmaan Mukherjee, junior; Treasurer Anika Seshan, junior; Webmaster Mohit Srinivasan, junior; Elite Team Leader Divyansha Nashine, senior; Digital Publicist Karolina Torbus, junior; Competition Coordinator Andrew Zagula, junior; and Events Coordinator Vedaang Verma, sophomore.

In addition to the presentation, members were given the chance to compete in a Blooket on computer science, with the top three competitors winning tech prizes such as headphones or a desk lamp. Freshmen Shubham Roy-Choudhury and Rishabh Gupta, as well as sophomore Kush Dave were this meeting’s winners. Finally, members were provided with refreshments.

“This is my second year being involved with the club, and it’s exciting to see it growing. I hope to compete in both ACSL and USACO, and expand my skills generally, making use of the club resources, of course,” Dave said.

Kinshuk Goel, in reference to the club’s mission, remarked that “We’re always underestimating the power of the tiny devices we carry around every day. With tech shaping so many future careers, we want to show everyone how cool it is to actually build things with code.”

Moving forward, the club hopes to get members involved with its bake sale on October 1. Additionally, its sister organization BR Hacks will be hosting the annual school hackathon on October 12 – a day-long computer science event where students learn, create and network. The event drew an attendance of over 150 students from school districts across the state last year, and the BR Hack’s team hopes to improve on that with this year’s installment.