Atkins Coders Place Second in Regional Competition

This comes to us from Scott Plaster at Atkins:

The Atkins HS <CamelCoders/> computer programming team competed at the Triad Programming Contest at A&T University Saturday, April 6 and brought home the prize for the second place high school. This highly demanding competition pits area high schools and colleges against each other in a three-hour window to complete the most computer programs written in Java, C, or C++ as solutions to difficult problems in logic. Notable was that the Atkins teams had two of the three high school females in the competition (more on that in a moment).

The AtkinsB team this year led by senior Daniel Gerblick, and including sophomore Kackie Garton and freshman Jefferson Hernandez, completed three programs successfully, with partial solutions for some others. The students even earned cash prizes. Their three points was enough to beat out all the other high schools (Career Center, Northern Guilford, and another team from NW Guilford), and college teams from High Point University, Alamance Community College, Guilford Tech, and a team from NC A&T. The problems, some involving complex mathematics, were so difficult that six of the competing teams submitted no solutions successfully. A sample problem from last year's contest is included below.

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