For the second time in four years, Bethel placed first out of all Kansas schools competing in the ACM North Central Regional Programming Contest held Nov. 11 at Emporia State University. ACM stands for Association of Computing Machinery.
Bethel took two teams to the competition. One placed 17th out of around 180 teams from 66 schools competing. This was Bethel’s best showing in its history of participation in the contest.
The north central region covers Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, western Ontario and Manitoba. The annual programming competition is dominated by large universities--the top six finishing teams came from the Universities of Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
In the programming contest, each team consists of three programmers. They are given one computer, nine problems and five hours in which to solve them.
The members of Bethel’s two teams were Matt Beth, sophomore from Newton, Kyle Claassen, freshman from Andover, Nathan Eigsti, senior from Hesston, Peter Goerzen, senior from Goessel, Tyler Huntley, senior from Goessel, and Alex Unruh, senior from Valley Center.
Overall rankings for the contest can be viewed at http://ncna.unomaha.edu/~acmregn/rankorder.html.