4 teams from UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) and our UMKC ACM student chapter competed at the October 24, 2015 IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition, a world-wide 24-hour marathon programming contest sponsored by IEEE. UMKC SCE Team The Daemons (Doug Hoskisson, Saad Mansoor, Binh Nguyen) finished 14th in the US and 177th worldwide. This placed them in the top 7% nationally and top 9% globally! Our other 3 UMKC teams were Kodikos (Billy Capps, Atreya Lahiri, and Alex Sweeney), Bulletyn (Reggie Roby, An Nguyen, Alex Wachira), and J2M (Das Auyshman, Hoang Nguyen, and Phung Nguyen). These teams acquitted themselves well, finishing near the middle of a very large pack in a challenging environment. If you see any of these students in class or in the corridor, be sure to congratulate them for a job well done.
Thank you to the SCE volunteer faculty and professional-community proctors, along with substantial organizational help from Debby Dilks, CSEE Department Manager, for the valuable help that made it possible for our students to take part. Brian Hare, our ACM student chapter faculty advisor, is proud of entire team and advises that ACM’s attention now turns immediately to the Mid-Central Region’s Intercollegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM, to be held at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg on November 7.
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