Northwest teams place in ACM programming contest

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Two teams of Northwest student programmers placed in the recent Mid-Central Region programming competition
sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and IBM. Pictured at left is the fourth-place Bearcat Green
team consisting of (starting second from left) Dustin Singleton, Andy Pryor and Aditya Sunchu. At right is the fifth-
place Bearcat Bit Twiddlers team consisting of (starting second from left) Mohammad Nabil Shaik, Lalitha Praneetha
Bhogaraju and Manyam Thejasvi. In both photos Dr. Ernie Ferguson, professor of computer science and information
systems and contest director, is shown at left and Dr. Gary McDonald, professor of computer science and information
systems and associate contest director, is shown at right.

Computing students from Northwest, Park University and the University of Central Missouri gathered on the Northwest campus Nov. 1 for one of 11 Mid-Central Region programming competitions that comprise the opening round of the 33rd annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Teams from the UCM and Park University placed first and second respectively. UCM also captured the third-place spot.

Northwest programmers rounded out the top-rated teams with a fourth-place finish by Bearcat Green (Dustin Singleton, Andy Pryor and Aditya Sunchu) and a fifth-place finish by the Bearcat Bit Twiddlers (Mohammad Nabil Shaik, Lalitha Praneetha Bhogaraju and Manyam Thejasvi).

Sponsored by IBM and organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, the “battle of the brains” is considered the most prestigious programming contest in the world and attracts the best and brightest programming students from across the globe.

Eleven three-student teams competed at Northwest, including six from the University. Each was challenged to use their programming skills, creativity and business sense to solve complex, real-world problems within five hours.

This year’s ICPC regional competition will include tens of thousands of students from universities in 83 countries on six continents, all vying for a spot at the world finals in Stockholm, Sweden, in April.

In addition to Northwest, the Mid-Central Region includes schools in Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee with 139 teams competing from those states.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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