For the fourth straight year a team from Virginia Tech has qualified for the prestigious ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals. This year’s Mid-Atlantic regional contest, held on November 5, included 177 teams from over 100 schools. Under the leadership of Dr. Godmar Back, ten Virginia Tech three-person teams participated in the regional contest this year. The team consisting of CS majors Peter Steele, Chris Wu, and Andriy Katkov finished first. They will be representing Virginia Tech at the 41st World Finals, to be held this coming May in Rapid City, SD.
The performance of all the Virginia Tech teams was outstanding, with four teams finishing in the top 14, and eight in the top 30. According to Dr. Back, “I need to acknowledge the enthusiasm and hard work of all involved. This year, I had a group of 60-70 dedicated students that attended the Saturday practices. We did five full (five hour) practices on Saturdays during October and September, plus a qualification contest the week before, plus an additional six virtual contests on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I would also like to thank our sponsors, Eastman Chemical, stack@cs, and the CSRC!”
Congratulations to all the ICPC participants:
“PriorityQueues for President” – Peter Steele, Chris Wu, Andriy Katkov
“HashSets for President” – Jeff Robertson, Christy Coghlan, Nathan Lahn
“LinkedLists for President” – Andy Sin, Shengzhe Xu, Geson Chong
“TreeSets for President” – Daniel Moyer, Jamie Simon, Ariana Herbst
“ArrayDeques for President” – Eric Williamson, Lance Chao, Harrison Fang
“Hashtables for President” – Stu Harvey, Daniel Amick, Drew Maczugowski
“BitSets for President” – Luke Wolff, Andrew Lahann, Swaraj Dhumne
“TreeMaps for President” – Bryce Humphrey, Ryan Berft, Alexander Glasson
“ArrayLists for President” – Raju Nadimpalli, JooYoung Whang, Yevhen Pylypenko
“HashMaps for President” – Hunter Morris, Jameson Dyer, Bright Zheng
