Bingham High students excel at Technology Student Association competition

Bingham High juniors Corbin Midgley and Anthony Nowling recently took a first place in the state Technology Student Association competition by creating a new website for their high school.

Jaren Barlocker and Damon Hernandez also participated in the website's development.  Corbin entered the TSA competition as part of a fundamental web class requirements. He chose to enter not only in the skills section of the competition solo but also with a team because he liked the idea of working on a team level. Every team member had a special area they worked on for the competition. Corbin was the team leader.

Corbin, who has always been interested in website development, got his start from a suggestion from a friend. "I was referred to the (web fundamental class) and ended up liking it, so well that I stuck with it," he said. He signed up for the next class level the following semester.

"This design was kind of different from things I've done," Corbin said. "We were building a website from scratch, so we got to use our own ideas and do what we wanted to do." "Web browser compatibility was one of the main reasons for our win," he said.
Corbin runs several sites for Bingham High including the band website and the football website.
The winning site will be used by the high school for calendar use.


However, the completed website that won the award at the state level will not be what Corbin and his team enter in the national competition. This is due to a change being made to the template that was suggested by the judges.

The template that was used on the current site is a bit dark and the new template will be much lighter. According to teacher Melinda Mansouri, a lot of adults think a lighter template is more appealing.
"The judges said they wanted it lighter and more colorful and that it was a little hard to read," Corbin said.
The students all received a ribbon for winning at state. The national competition will be held June 21 to 22 in Dallas, Texas.

By Alisha Tondro for The South Valley Journal

Published in April 2011 in Riverton, Utah



From left: Jaren Barlocker, Corbin Midgley,

Damon Hernandez and Anthony Nowling



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