Lafayette won 2nd and 3rd places on site in the regional ACM programming contest

On November 5, two teams of Lafayette students competed at the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest. The teams finished second and third respectively at their site (Wilkes University), losing narrowly to a team from Bucknell. Overall, 166 teams from 65 Institutions competed at 8 sites of the Mid-Atlantic region. Lafayette teams ranked 19 and 22 respectively.

The competing colleges (and number of teams from the college) at the Wilkes University site were:

Bucknell (3), Kings College (2), Lafayette (2), LaSalle (2), Lehigh (2), Moravian (4), Susquehanna (2), Temple (1), Scranton (3), Villanova (2), Wilkes (2)

The Lafayette teams were:

Lafayette 1: Nicholas Escalona (2013, CS/Physics), Xin Hu (2014, ECE), Tong Pham (2013, CS)

Lafayette 2: Maytee Chinavanichkit (2012, CS), Berkin Ilbeyi (2012, CS/ECE), Chris Miles (2013 ECE)

The faculty coaches for the teams were Professor Xiaoyan Li and Professor Frank Xia.