Acadia's Programming Competition Team Comes Third In Atlantic Region

On October 18 at UPEI, as part of the annual Science Atlantic Math,
Stats and Computer Science conference, Acadia teams continued a
tradition of performing well in the intercollegiate programming
competition.
 
This Science Atlantic competition forms the first round for the teams
from Atlantic universities in a world-wide competition pitting teams
of (up to) three students in a problem solving / computer programming
contest.
 
Acadia's "I Can't Believe It's Not Java 2" team of Samuel Coleman,
Daniel Deveau and Lourens Schep (coached by computer science professor
Jim Diamond) placed third out of 21 teams.  During the five-hour
competition, Samuel, Daniel and Lourens solved five of the seven
problems, a feat which no other team beat.  They placed third based
upon the tie-breaker, a formula which takes into account how long it
took each team to solve the problems.  Samuel, Daniel and Lourens
missed second place by the smallest of margins: another team
solving a problem in the very last minute of the competition to pull
ahead.
 
Acadia had the top team from Nova Scotia, duplicating the results of
2011, when we last won the competition, as well as a number of other
previous competitions.
 
By virtue of coming in third place, the Acadia team advances to the
next level of competition (the Northeast North America region, which
includes the Atlantic provinces, Quebec, and most of the north-eastern
US).  This competition will be held on November 16, with the Acadia
team travelling to UNB, who are hosting a "remote competition site"
for the three or four Atlantic Canadian teams who were permitted to
advance.

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