Representing Abington Heights High School in a recent computer programming contest, from left, Dante Paniccia and Phillip Misterman.

Abington Heights High School students, from left, Joey Harrington, Griffin Joyce and Garrett MacKay represent the school in a recent computer programming event at The University of Scranton.

SCRANTON — Abington Heights High School students were among those from eight high schools competing in the annual Computer Programming Contest hosted by The University of Scranton’s Computing Sciences Department in the spring semester. During the competition, 15 teams used their programming language to solve computer programming problems.