The South Pacific Regional ACM ICP Contest - 12 Sep 2009 2pm - 7pm

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Victoria University of Wellington is hosting one site of the South Pacific Region's ACM ICP Contest for 2009.

Teams from anywhere in the North Island (and beyond) are welcome to come and compete.

The contest is being hosted in Cotton Building on the University's Kelburn Campus, and we'll be supporting Java 1.5 (via Eclipse, Netbeans and Emacs) and C++ (via g++ 4.1.3 and Emacs).

The provisional schedule for the day is:

1:00pm Briefing and familiarisation with the software/ environment (Cotton Building, CO246)

2:00pm Contest starts.

7:00pm Contest ends.

7:15pm Presentation to teams.

NB! This year, we are happy to accommodate high school teams - please let the organisers know as soon as you can confirm that you are interested!

All enquiries should be directed to Alex Potanin

The Contest is Now Over - See You Again Next Year!

Wellington site had 4 University teams (3 from VUW and 1 from Massey in Palmerston North) and 2 High School teams (1 from Scots College in Wellington and 1 from Palmerston North Boys High School). The top team solved 5 out of 9 problems and consisted of Hugh Davenport, Carlton Downey, and Michale Mudge. We also had 4 IBM people present during the contest to observe and help out. The following is the photo of our top team hard at work.

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