UMKC was a host site for the 2014 ACM Mid-Central USA programming contest on Saturday, November 1, with teams from UMKC, Park University, and the University of Central Missouri competing. Our UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) fielded 4 teams. The Problem Factory (Robert Holland and Emily Thomas) won the competition at our site and finished 28th of 154 teams regionally, with 5 problems out of 9 and a total time of 951 minutes (including a final correct submission two minutes before the end of the contest). The Algoristocrats (Sarah Withee, Eric Sundquist, and Joshua Herndon) finished 4th of 8 teams at our site and 70th regionally. Receiving honorable mention were the Null Exceptionals (Hoang Nguyen, An Nguyen) and the Brogrammers (Reggie Roby, Ronald Nero, and Alex Wachira).
SCE would like to thank Brian Hare, ACM student chapter faculty advisor, Donald Ledford of UMKC Information Services, Sharon Griffith of the CSEE department staff, and UMKC student volunteers and ACM officers – Avinash Desireddy, Fatima Mohamed, Varun Narisetty, Binh Nguyen, Vicky Wu, Michael Harris, Eric Gonzalez, and Dan Robison – for their contributions to a successful event.
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