Chesapeake Takes Top Prize in BCPS Game Competition

Teams from Eastern Tech and Chesapeake high schools took home awards Wednesday in a Baltimore County Public Schools game design competition.

Chesapeake claimed a first prize in game production in the school system's fourth annual Project L.i.V.E. ( that stands for “Learning in Virtual Environments”), officials announced Friday.

Teacher Justin Patterson, quoted in a BCPS release, described the winning project, titled "Red Room," as a "1930s, film noir-esque story." The game was also awarded second place in the game design category.

“The students did an amazing job of incorporating what they learned in class into the game," forensics teacher Krystal Romanowski said in the release.

Student Tymisha McDaniels, one of nine who worked on the project, said coding was the most challenging part for the student team.

“We went through many trials and errors," she said. "We made so many errors. It was ridiculous, but we fixed them.”

Eastern Tech's team won a third place prize in game design for their game, titled “Ph Power Struggle." Teams from four other county high schools also competed.

Here are the members of the winning teams, according to the BCPS release.

Chesapeake

• Amanda Ambrose
• Darmindra Esau
• Alexis Kashner
• Brandon Mateer
• Caitlyn Mauricio
• Tymisha McDaniels
• Jacob Saporito
• Jazzman Simpson
• Samantha Thomas

Eastern Tech

• Josh Fox
• Justice Ibeawuchi
• Kelsey Jackson
• Nhi Luu
• Arden Qiu
• Sean Sanders
• Christopher Williams
• Kayla Zuromski