11 UVic Engineering PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s students in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering just finished their first IEEExtreme online programming competition lasting 24 hours.
The Top UVic team, IslandVikingCoders, completed 10 problems and ranked 3rd in Canada. Other UVic teams all completed 6 problems. Being in GMT+7, UVic students were a bit disadvantaged to start at Friday 5pm. As this is UVic’s first participation in this competition with a short notice, we really should thank to our students representing UVic well to the world.
The four UVic teams, sponsored by IEEE Ocean Engineering Society (OES) Victoria Chapter and IEEE UVic Student Branch, are:
CodeMonkeyCrusaders: Anthony Kroeker, Jonah Wall, and Piper Gordon
MonkeyIslandTemplars: Jeremy Kroeker, Neal Clark, and Fieran Mason-Blakley
IslandVikingCoders: Kazem Jahanbakhsh, Arian Khosravi, and Fred Song
GracefulCoders: XiaoQi Grace He, Yanyan Zhuang
They were proctored by Jim, night/day-shifted with me, Sudhakar and Kui.
Many people have helped/contributed to make this possible. Thanks to CSC Office Admin Heather for coordinating with UVic Campus Security and other admins, and CSC IT/Lab Support Kathryn, Tomas and Bill for lab setup. Also thanks to Fayez for the right direction to seek funding support, Hausi for promising to match whatever Sue contributes, Sue and Tom for their night visit to the students, and Dongdong for being a good boy while I was away.
Let’s congratulate to the teams and thank for their efforts again. Cheers!
If I graduate next year, I won’t be eligible anymore. Otherwise I’ll do it again.