Bogdan Gura, a senior at North Royalton High School and student in the Programming and Software Development program at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center, will compete in the Business Professionals of America national competition in May. The competition, which is in web application, will take place virtually. At the state competition this past March, they qualified for the nationals and are in the top 10 of all students in the United States.
Working alongside a student from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, Kaden Emrich, the duo created an educational website, inspired by Khan Academy, to empower teachers in establishing classes with the courses they developed. The system monitors students’ grades as they progress through lessons in these classes. The platform prioritizes security, requiring teachers and students to create accounts to secure access, utilizing their login credentials to re-enter the system. Throughout the first semester, they dedicated significant effort to project, delving into back-end programming, particularly mastering PHP, to effectively store and retrieve data on a server–an undertaking that goes beyond the standard curriculum.
Left to right: CVCC Instructor Jami Little, Brecksville’s Kaden Emrich, and North Royalton’s Bogdan Gura