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San Jose Mercury News (CA) September 13, 1986 SIX BAY AREA STUDENTS WIN WOZNIAK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Author: Mercury News Staff Report Edition: Morning Final Section: Business Page: 3D Index Terms: COMPUTER CELEBRITY EDUCATION AWARD COLLEGE STUDENT Estimated printed pages: 1 Article Text:Six Bay Area students received Stephen G. Wozniak Achievement Awards for computer innovation Friday at the Silicon Valley '86 trade show in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Students competed in five categories, including computer music, computer art and business applications.Marshall Rockwell, 21, who attends the University of California at Berkeley, won an overall award for outstanding achievement. He designed a wand that he described as "the next mouse." The wand captures a high resolution image by scanning text or graphics. It can be used as a computer scanner, portable copier machine or portable FAX machine. Awards in the business applications category were given to Alan Nishioka, a freshman at UC Berkeley, and to Bob Heldt Jr. of San Jose, who is a junior at California Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo. Nishioka won for a computerized card-catalog system. Heldt won for a computerized inventory and sales control system for retail stores. In the computer music category, the winners were John Bliss, a San Jose State University junior from Fremont, and John Gaushell, a Sunnyvale student at Homestead High School. David Hayward, a Tiburon resident who attends Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, won the computer art award. Copyright (c) 1986 San Jose Mercury News Record Number: 8603130874 |