Many students at De Soto High School have many different interests, but for one junior, his interest is programming.

Programming is an electronic code that tells an electronic what and how to do an action.

Junior Cody Moose has been programming since he was 8 years old when he got involved with robotics.

“My dad found a newspaper article about [robotics camp] and he asked my brother and I if we wanted to go and we both really wanted to,”  Moose said.

Moose is one of three of the DHS students involved in the combined DHS and Mill Valley High School Robotics team.

“When I was 8, my brother and I started going to robotics camps hosted by Lee Summit High School, and my brother liked the mechanical aspect of [robotics] and I liked the programming aspect of [robotics] more… and I have been in programming ever since,” Moose said.

His teammate, junior Alex Webber, had some good things to say about Moose.

“Cody is a very intelligent person, he knows what he is doing. He is just a really nice person and stays on top of things,” Webber said.

Webber also mentioned how Moose focuses on his programming at practice and at meets.

“[At] robotics meetings, he is pretty quiet, but he is working hard and he does not like to be bothered but that is a good thing because he gets done what he needs too,” Webber said.

Even though Moose is undecided whether or not he wants to go into programming in his future, he is still keeping an open mind.

“There is a lot of things that really interest me and that I could go into for a career but programming is definitely an option,” Moose said.