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COLLEGE STUDENTS SHINE AT PROGRAMMING CONTEST |
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November 04, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Two Grove City College teams earned the No. 14 and No. 23 overall rankings in the International Collegiate Programming Contest in late October. The 36th annual IBM-sponsored contest challenged students from 60 colleges and universities to use programming skills to solve demanding, real-world problems.
The upperclassman team of seniors Gregory Miller of Allison Park, Pa., and Shane Rose of Cochranton, Pa., and junior Edward Quigley IV of Monaca, Pa., completed 3 problems in 677 minutes. The underclassman team of sophomores Philip Edwards of Saxonburg, Pa., Gideon Ludwig of Indiana, Pa., and Mark Schrecengost Jr. of Avonmore, Pa., finished 3 problems in 305 minutes. Freshmen Zachary Wheeler of Chester, S.C., and Ethan Johnson of Canandaigua, N.Y., were team alternates.
The two Grove City College teams placed No. 2 and No. 4 at Youngstown State University among 46 participating teams from regional colleges and universities. The teams were recognized at a banquet and awarded new lap top bags for their performance.
Among the 60 colleges and universities in the contest, the performance of the Grove City College students competing earned the College an eighth overall ranking.
The Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) promotes creativity, teamwork and innovation while testing students’ performance under pressure. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious programming contests in the world.
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