Programming Competitions
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Past Competitions
Impressive Finish for Programming Team
A team of four Wofford students--Shay Ellison, Manan Gupta, Brad Neff, and Stephen Strickland--finished second in the 2008 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Southeastern Programming Contest in Augusta, Georgia. The team, coached by Dr. Dave Sykes, solved all seven problems and beat many strong teams. Their achievement represents a great deal of hard work over the years, problem-solving skills, intelligence, calmness under pressure, and teamwork. Congratulations to the team on their impressive finish!
Programming Teams Do Well at Regional Contest
Two Wofford teams coached by Dr. Dave Sykes did well in the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery Southeastern Regional Programming Contest. Team Terrier 1 with members Shay Ellison, Manan Gupta, and Brad Neff came in 17th; and Team Terrier 2 with members Glenn Hope, James Koutroulias, and Whitney Sanders were 46th. Most of the 76 participating schools were universities, and first-year graduate students can be team members. Top finishers were all teams from large schools, such as the Universities of Central Florida, Florida, and Clemson. Few colleges participated, and no colleges ranked higher than our teams.
Mathematical modeling team earns honorable mention
For four days (and nights) in February, a team of three Wofford students (Shay Ellison, Manan Gupta, and Stephen Strickland) participated in The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), an international contest sponsored by COMAP (http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/). With a choice of two problems, the team tackled the problem of developing an algorithm to construct Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. The team, which was the first to participate from Wofford, won Honorable Mention. Of the 1162 teams that participated, 76% were foreign teams. The categories of finish were: 9 Outstanding Winners (1%), 161 Meritorious Winners (13%), 478 Honorable Mentions (41%), 512 Successful Participants (44%), 2 Unsuccessful Participants (1%). Wofford's Team presented a poster on their work at the Southeastern Mathematical Association of America Conference in Charleston.