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Winning first place with him at Lockheed Martin CodeQuest
Sam Hecht
Playing Wizard!!
Anna Dubnoff
Watching him draw dozens of boxes on the board during AP Comp Sci
Ethan Blum
Planning for CodeLM during lunches. It was always fun to brainstorm new question ideas and crazy New Wave plots. I also really enjoyed filming the introductory CodeLM videos each year -- it was especially fun to film the scene where Mr. Swope pretended to be Noah's Chauffeur.
Max Roling
When we won the Emmaus programming competition last year.
Connor Marsh
Mr. Swope moved everyone in our App design class to his advisory so that we could meet with the Design team during advisory. Half way through the year I had forgotten why he moved us and so I asked Mr. Swope, "Hey, Mr. Swope, why'd you move us into your advisory again?" He shrugged and said "I don't remember." I'm happy he did move us though because that advisory was FIRE. Werewolf anybody?
Daniel Gurevitch
Playing the basketball throw game freshman year
Noah Wheeler
This is my first year having him, so I can't definitively say...
Annie Wang
One time I tried to convince Mr. Swope that we could leave early from class because of an assembly that did not exist, so I made a fake contact of Mr. Hughes and showed him out text conversation. He didn't buy it and made me take an extra 10 Question Quia and ranted about his Christian rock band.
Asher Dayanim
This isn't one memory, but review basketball was the best. Oh and also when he just brought out like a ton of board games and that was all we did for class. And anytime he couldn't believe just how dumb we could get and just sat there chuckling.
Jake Gurevitch
Playing wizard with the class after finishing our work.
Selassie Berhane
Interviewing him about the new learning center he designed with a few other teachers. I really got to know him better and was inspired by his passion to create a modern learning environment for students to enjoy.
Phillip Gao
the first day in school, when he pointed at a poster behind his wall that showed a cartoon version of him at different levels of irritation and said that he would transform into the infuriated, neck-veined version and throw chairs at students if they didn't lower their laptop screens ;)
Jonathan Xu
I remember a milk dud-eating competition during the spring in AP comp. sci. It was just the wackiest thing, but Swope asked if anyone wanted to volunteer to see who could eat milk duds the fastest. I lost, but it was just a hilarious experience.
Ben Warren
Spending downtime with you after classes and getting to know you a bit more have been times that stand out the most with nothing but great times with you
Bradley Wootton
Playing jenga with the 2x4 planks in the library during the App project (and winning).
Conor Burke
CodeLM, GirlsHack("LM"), and Program.IT - also the time we played a Johnny Cash song for the Black Box L&L open mic. He brought in the drums for the drummer to play, played guitar and took on vocals! Fun time!
Justin Mansor
Mr. Swope getting really pumped up to draw the boxes.
Claire Brogan
One time, I accidentally cursed in class :( and Mr. Swope just kind of smiled and said "Isaac, you used to be such a nice kid, what happened?" And we had a lot of much more clearly positive interactions, but somehow in that moment it was just so clear how much he actually cared about me and just knew me.
Isaac Rand
there's too many to pick just one favorite, but the way new wave computers grew from a corny project to a recurring presence in every one of his classes always makes me laugh. and the box explanations of object variables.
Max Blumenfeld
CodeLM 2018
Joey Cengel
CodeLM, of course! It's amazing how it's grown from a small experiment in my sophomore year to an annual event with dozens of competitors and a corporate sponsor. CodeLM is always a highlight of my year and I admire your dedication to it.
Noah Rubin
When during every advisory last year he'd play werewolf with us!
Sara Beqiraj
when he called my cat the reincarnation of the devil.
Josh Steinfeld
Dolphin Olympics
Simon Roling
Playing werewolf during each advisory last year!
Keene Brogan
When you gave me aux
Roldan Kramer
when we would do review questions with that basketball game
Ari Steinfeld
When Girls Who Code gave him $400 and he bought snacks with the money since he didn't know what else to do with it. I have a TON of amazing memories but this one stands out.
Maggie Hollis
When he allowed us to shoot basketball shots into the hoop in his classroom for extra credit on one of the AP comp sci projects.
Eric Yang
Him taking us on cool field trips and letting us skip the rest of our classes :)
Teresa Lu-Romeo
Talking during Lunch and Learn.
Prince Geutler
when he started making fun of AP Art and it became a C.S. meme
Nathan Gooneratne
Playing basketball with him on the mini hoop.
Vik Miller
When he would argue about politics with Alex Romine
Justin Cannan
There's so many but probably when we made computer science memes together or just when we hung out and talked.
Anne Hamilton
him teaching me computer science 😎
Ian Mernagh
Basically anytime he went on rants about boxes. It was funny.
Fiona Rae
Seeing him walking through the art hallway throwing up the Comp sci gang signs
Justin Minerva
All of them sorry my memory is terrible
Ethan Frank
When he canceled the Inheritance test because I told him I was stress crying about it.
Ella Lawrence
Playing basketball to study for tests and Lunch & Learns in his room.
Sebastian Connelly
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