The Midwest Collegiate Competing Conference (MWC3) was held on March 21 and March 22 at Grand Valley.
MWC3 is an annual technology conference that invites many Midwest Michigan schools to learn and compete.
This year’s conference had a Ferris turnout of 37 students. Ferris students placed in almost all of the competitions.
Information security and intelligence sophomore Seth Brott was able to attend the conference this year. He competed in four competitions, two of which he placed first, along with his teammate Kyle Thompson.
Brott said he thought the purposes of the conference were professional development, the ability to work, and socialize with students in the same field at different schools and learning opportunities.
“There were faculty, sponsors from the industry, and students from other schools there,” Brott said. “They were all open to talk, and we had open sessions where they had a panel and then we could all discuss a topic. It was nice to see and meet people that are in the same programs and majors that we are, but at different schools, it gave us different perspectives.”
The Ferris students who placed are as follows:
Cybersecurity: 1st place Seth Brott and Kyle Thompson, 3rd place Jacob Derenzy and William Kittredge
Data Analytics with MS Office: 2nd place Brendan Bender and Zach VanDerZanden
Data Analytics with Tableau: 1st place Owen Myers and Logan Reynolds, 3rd Place Alyssa Tarkowski
Database Design: 1st place Seth Brott and Kyle Thompson, 2nd place Gavin Kelly and William Wurtz
ERP with ScrimmageSIM: 2nd place Lane Brady and Austin Hancock
Java Development: 1st place Jared Ricks
Mainframe Systems with IBM Z Xplore: 2nd place Kyle Thompson, 3rd place Lane Brady
PC Troubleshooting: 1st place Brendan Bender, 2nd place Lane Brady, 3rd place Walker Eyer
Project Management with SimProject: 2nd place Owen Myers
Python Development: 2nd place Gavin Kelly and William Wurtz
CE – RS / C.F.