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The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Gold Team placed first in a regional round of the 34th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest Oct. 24, making it the fifth straight year a Vanderbilt computer science team has taken top honors in a regional round.
The Gold Team competed with 23 collegiate teams from 10 other colleges and universities in Tennessee and Alabama at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville in a five-hour contest to solve nine real-world computer programming problems. Teams are ranked according to most problems solved and the time consumed for each problem solved.
"We solved our first problem in the first 10 minutes of the contest," said Kyle Prete, a senior computer science and math major from Mandeville. "We solved our fifth problem just four minutes before the end of competition. That's what won it for us."
Prete and the two other Gold Team members "" computer engineering senior Adam Albright of Chattanooga, Tenn., and first-year computer science graduate student Andrew Pitman of Nashville, Tenn. "" each took three of the nine problems. On the easier ones, they worked alone.
PHI SIGMA THETA
Phi Sigma Theta announces that David Mark Schroeter, son of Debra Schroeter of Covington and Mark Schroeter of Franklinton has recently become a member of Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society at Louisiana State University. Phi Sigma Theta is a national honor society dedicated to recognizing and rewarding academic achievement in undergraduates at institutions of higher learning.
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Published in The Times-Picayune Sunday, November 8, 2009
