{"id":18137,"date":"2020-03-13T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:04","slug":"student-programming-team-competes-in-north-american-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/13\/student-programming-team-competes-in-north-american-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Student programming team competes in North American Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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L-R: U-M student programmers Ramchandra Apte, Aman Karunakaran, and Kailun Xu. (The Michigan Engineer)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At Michigan, coding has been a competitive sport since the late 1980s when teams of students began competing in Association for Computing Machinery collegiate programming contests. In these competitions, teams of three students work on a single computer to solve as many\u00a0programming challenges\u00a0as possible in a set amount of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, one U-M team qualified to advance to the\u00a0North America Championship stage of the 2020 International Collegiate Programming Contest<\/a>, held February 19-23 in Atlanta, Georgia. The U-M team placed 27 in a field of 59.\u00a0\u201cIt was a very competitive field, so we did not prevail,\u201d said emeritus professor Kevin Compton<\/strong>, one of the team’s coaches. “It was, however, an honor to make it to this level.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Michigan, coding has been a competitive sport since the late 1980s when teams of students began competing in Association for Computing Machinery collegiate programming contests. In these competitions, teams of three students work on a single computer to solve as many\u00a0programming challenges\u00a0as possible in a set amount of time.\u00a0 This year, one U-M team qualified to advance\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[801,177,96],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-competition","tag-programming","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",600,400,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ElijXmeT.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"At Michigan, coding has been a competitive sport since the late 1980s when teams of students began competing in Association for Computing Machinery collegiate programming contests. In these competitions, teams of three students work on a single computer to solve as many\u00a0programming challenges\u00a0as possible in a set amount of time.\u00a0 This year, one U-M team…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18140,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}