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STUDENT PROGRAMMERS EXCEL IN COMPETITION |
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November 16, 2006
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College computer programming students set College records against East Central North America division competitors at an Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest in Ashland, Ohio, Nov. 11. It is the fourth year the College has sent teams to the competition.
One of two teams competing, Grove City College Wolverines, came in 27th out of 115 teams, the highest placing any Grove City team has ever recorded. Team members senior Matt Chambers of Washington, Pa., sophomore Phil Deets of Franklin, Pa., and junior Eric Mickelsen of Cincinnati, Ohio, scored the best score ever for a Grove City College team by solving three of the eight problems posed. No College team has solved more than one problem.
Sponsored annually by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IBM Corporation, the regional contest this year required 115 teams of three programmers to solve a list of eight problems in five hours using the C, C++ or Java programming language. It is part of a worldwide programming competition that involves teams from 1,737 colleges and universities from 84 countries on six continents. The East Central region offers strong competition from teams representing former world champion University of Waterloo, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University. The regional champion was a University of Toronto team, with Team Tartan from Carnegie Mellon finishing second.
The Grove City College Bits and Bytes team, made up of sophomore Jenny Hogan of Penfield, N.Y., sophomore Chad Severtson of Jamestown, N.Y., and sophomore Cody Koontz of Moundsville, W.Va., also competed. Junior Sarah Youchak of Johnstown, Pa., accompanied the teams as an alternate. The teams were coached by Drs. David Adams and Dorian Yeager of the College’s Department of Computer Science.
The East Central regional contest was administered over a wide-area network simultaneously at four sites in Ashland, Ohio; Dearborn, Mich.; Oakville, Ontario; and Cincinnati.
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