The School of Computing played host for the second time to the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario’s East Regional High School Programming Contest on April 25th. Twenty teams of up to four student programmers each participated, attempting to solve four challenging programming problems in the space of three hours. The top five teams from Saturday’s contest are eligible to enter the final in the ECOO programming contest series next month in Toronto. Thanks to all the teams and their coaches for participating. Congratulations to the winning team from Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, and team members Spencer Whitehead, Ryan Torrington-Smith, Kevin Jia, and Willy Lau. Thanks to School of Computing organizer, Richard Linley, to ECOO’s Chris Kulenkamp who acted as principal score-keeper, to the School’s Lynda Moulton for organizing the catering, and to QSC student volunteers Matthew Lougheed, Pall Allison, Hanfeng Chen, Latifa Azzam, and Yosra Azzam for their invaluable assistance with set-up, tear-down, and judging.
Update: The contest received coverage in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
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Photos by Latifa Azzam