{"id":1416,"date":"2021-03-22T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:12:31","slug":"fifteen-students-awarded-top-spots-sharpen-skills-in-programming-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2021\/03\/22\/fifteen-students-awarded-top-spots-sharpen-skills-in-programming-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen students awarded top spots, sharpen skills in programming competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a momentous win, 15 Oregon State University undergraduate students took the top spots in Oregon in the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/icpc.global\/\">International Collegiate Programming Contest<\/a>\u2019s Pacific Northwest regional competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaurya Gaur, a computer science student and president of the OSU student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, helped organize the group\u2019s participation in the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI competed last year and I loved working with others to solve these fun problems. Ever since, I\u2019ve enjoyed competitive programming, and I wanted to keep doing it with my friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computer science major Teresita Guzman Nader joined the competition hoping to build skills that might be valuable in a future career, and was pleased with the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI improved my skills to work in a team of engineers, and I think this experience will help me to be a better team player in my future work environment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While students enjoyed having the opportunity to compete, they wanted to hone their programming skills as well. \u201cI set a goal to learn and practice new algorithms last year and there was no better way to achieve it than with the ACM club at the competition,\u201d said computer science student and club vice president Matt Morgan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ICPC Oregon Division 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>First place:<\/strong> Beavs&#8217;; DROP TABLE Teams; (Shaurya Gaur, Matt Morgan, Miklos Bowling)<\/li><li><strong>Second place:<\/strong> Hacky Stack (Allen Benjamin, Arshia Soleimanimoorchehkhorti, Zachary Taylor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ICPC Oregon Division 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>First place:<\/strong> Time Limit Exceeded (Wei Yu Tang, Jia Wei Cheng, Blake Cecil)<\/li><li><strong>Second place:<\/strong> chmod 555 (Derek Williams, Teresita Guzman Nader, Milan Donhowe)<\/li><li><strong>Third place:<\/strong> rm -f * (Sadie Thomas, Myles Scholz, Phillip Bindeman)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a momentous win, 15 Oregon State University undergraduate students took the top spots in Oregon in the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest\u2019s Pacific Northwest regional competition. 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