KCP&L sponsored a special graduate student competition held April 8, 2019 at Northwest Missouri State University. Sixteen students were selected from the School of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) to compete in the prestigious competition. Teams included students earning their M.S. in Information Systems (MS IS) and students earning their M.S. in Applied Computer Science (MS ACS). Each interdisciplinary team designed an incident reporting application in accordance with a provided system requirements specification. Teams had to sketch the application, develop an entity-relationship diagram, address security issues, and create network and activity diagrams. The event was coordinated by Jory Galloway, Web Application Programmer at KCP&L, administered by Dr. Joni Adkins, Associate Professor and MS IS Program Coordinator, hosted by Dr. Doug Hawley, Associate Professor and Director-Elect of the School of CSIS, and supported by faculty members Aziz Fellah, Charles Hoot, Denise Case, Mathew Schieber, Michael Rogers, Nathan Eloe, Roger Von Holzen, and Dr. Greg Haddock, Associate Provost of Graduate Studies and Professional Studies. Each team presented their designs to a judging panel of KCP&L professionals including Jory Galloway, Jordan Kilmer, Tyler Mattoon, Seth Walz, Whitney Mallett, and Hayden Rainey. Contestants were honored with an award dinner sponsored by KCP&L.

• First place and a $400 prize went to Sirisha Devineni, Bindu Veeramachaneni, Aawaj Joshi, and Nonso Okika.
• Second place and $300 prize went to Sai Kiran Peddachappali, Raja Srikar Karthik Chinta, Shivani Busireddy, and Wendy Eloe.
• Third place and $200 prize went to Bhaskar Gottemukkula, Anuraag Naidu Sanakkayala, Sai Anusha Yerukonda, and Havya Ravipati.
• Fourth place and $100 prize went to Sonam Gadekari, Pallavi Kallamadi, Prashanth Kumar Thallada, and Lokeswari Pittu.

Congratulations to all winners and many thanks to KCP&L for sponsoring the event!