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October 20, 2010
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Two Grove City College teams will compete in the regional portion of the 35th annual IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest Oct. 23 at Youngstown State University. Students will seek to apply their programming skills while maintaining mental endurance to solve complex, real world problems under a difficult five-hour deadline.
Grove City College students competing in the event are seniors Aaron Mininger of Halifax, Pa., Shawn Recker of Finleyville, Pa., and junior Greg Miller of Winston-Salem, N.C., on a team and junior Shane Rose of Cochranton, Pa., sophomore Edward Quigley of Monaca, Pa., and freshman Gideon Ludwig of Indiana, Pa., on the second team. Freshman Phillip Edwards of Saxonburg, Pa., will also travel with the teams as an alternate.
Regional competitions have attracted tens of thousands of students from approximately 90 countries on six continents competing for a chance to win the “World’s Smartest Trophy.” The top 100 teams will have the opportunity to compete in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Feb. 27 to March 4, 2011 for the World Finals.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, also known as the Battle of the Brains, seeks to foster creativity, teamwork and innovation in building new software programs and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. The contest is the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
For more information on the 35th annual IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, visit http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc.
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