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1st Place ~ Charles Waddell and Matt King, from Charlottetown Rural High School 2nd Place ~ Jonathan Burt and Jordan MacDonald, from Kensington Senior High School 3rd Place ~ Jeremy Banks and Andrew Stevenson, from Three Oaks Senior High School
Designed to foster an interest in computer programming and problem solving and to encourage PEI high school students who have an interest and ability in these areas, the competition was a great opportunity for young people of like interests and abilities. In an atmosphere of friendly competitiveness students wrote computer programs to implement the solutions to problems of varying levels of difficulty. All teams completed at least 6 of the 10 programs, with some teams completing all 10 programs in the allotted 2 hours.
Judges Kevin Mycroft and Andrew Mella were very impressed with both the amount and quality of work the students were able to accomplish in the short time allotted. There was only one point separating each of the three top teams. "Actually, we had to move to a detailed source code inspection to determine the winning team," stated Kevin Mycroft. "The competition participants demonstrated exceptionally strong skill levels with regards to writing programs".
The first place team received $500, second place $200 and third place $100. Charlottetown Rural, the winning school, also takes home a $500 cash prize, bragging rights and a school trophy for display, highlighting their current accomplishments in computer programming at the high school level in PEI!
For more information about this release, please contact: Michelle Gallant, Media and Communications Officer Tel: 902-629-4270
Date: Monday, May 08, 2006
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