{"id":6865,"date":"2015-11-12T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:09:16","slug":"k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"K Computer Science Students Make Their Professor Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6867 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College representatives travel to ACM competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two teams of Kalamazoo College students traveled to the ACM ECNA International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Grand Rapids recently &#8212; and &#8220;both teams did great,&#8221; said Associate Professor of Computer Science Pam Cutter, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve placed in the top 5 at our site!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two K teams, made up of three students each, finished fourth and fifth among 26 teams participating\u00a0at GVSU. Out of 130 teams competing at four separate eastern region sites, K teams finished 17th and 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m feeling quite pleased that we beat three out of five teams from University of Michigan,&#8221; Cutter said.<\/p>\n<p>With schools such as University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, and Notre Dame, Cutter said &#8220;Ours is known as a tough region. Because of this, our region gets to send three teams to the world finals, whereas most other regions only get to send two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cutter said the top five teams at each site receive prizes, so each K student earned a backpack. Each K team also won a special award: the Black Hornets won the Jolly Jumpers award for highest jump in rank and the Orange Hornets tied for the Solid Programmers award for most problems solved with least penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Black Hornets&#8221; team that finished fourth included <strong>Abhay Goel \u201918<\/strong>, <strong>Raoul Wadha \u201917<\/strong>, and <strong>Jacob Naranjo \u201918<\/strong>. The &#8220;Orange Hornets&#8221; team that finished fifth included <strong>Sarah Manski \u201916<\/strong>, <strong>Kyle Sunden \u201916<\/strong>, and <strong>Kamal Kamalaldin \u201917<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Left to right in the photo, they are Kamal, Kyle, Sarah, Raoul, Abhay, Jacob, and Professor Cutter.<\/p>\n<p>Full results from the regional competition are here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ecna15.kattis.com\/standings?filter=375\">https:\/\/ecna15.kattis.com\/standings?filter=375<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams of Kalamazoo College students traveled to the ACM ECNA International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Grand Rapids recently &#8212; and &#8220;both teams did great,&#8221; said Associate Professor of Computer Science Pam Cutter, Ph.D. &#8220;It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve placed in the top 5 at our site!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":6867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,231],"tags":[57,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students","tag-computer-science","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>K Computer Science Students Make Their Professor Proud - News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two teams of Kalamazoo College students traveled to the ACM ECNA International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition at Grand Valley State\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K Computer Science Students Make Their Professor Proud - News and Events\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two teams of Kalamazoo College students traveled to the ACM ECNA International Collegiate Programming Contest regional competition at Grand Valley State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News and Events\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-12T21:20:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-23T15:09:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/s-team-2015.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andy Brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andy Brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Andy Brown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8b54e37c984840c05e9ec797b6616166\"},\"headline\":\"K Computer Science Students Make Their Professor Proud\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-12T21:20:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-23T15:09:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/k-computer-science-students-make-their-professor-proud\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kzoo.edu\\\/news\\\/files\\\/2015\\\/11\\\/s-team-2015.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"computer science\",\"students\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Faculty &amp; 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and &#8220;both teams did great,&#8221; said Associate Professor of Computer Science Pam Cutter, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve placed in the top 5 at our site!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two K teams, made up of three students each, finished fourth and fifth among 26 teams participating\u00a0at GVSU. Out of 130 teams competing at four separate eastern region sites, K teams finished 17th and 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m feeling quite pleased that we beat three out of five teams from University of Michigan,&#8221; Cutter said.<\/p>\n<p>With schools such as University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, and Notre Dame, Cutter said &#8220;Ours is known as a tough region. Because of this, our region gets to send three teams to the world finals, whereas most other regions only get to send two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cutter said the top five teams at each site receive prizes, so each K student earned a backpack. Each K team also won a special award: the Black Hornets won the Jolly Jumpers award for highest jump in rank and the Orange Hornets tied for the Solid Programmers award for most problems solved with least penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Black Hornets&#8221; team that finished fourth included <strong>Abhay Goel \u201918<\/strong>, <strong>Raoul Wadha \u201917<\/strong>, and <strong>Jacob Naranjo \u201918<\/strong>. The &#8220;Orange Hornets&#8221; team that finished fifth included <strong>Sarah Manski \u201916<\/strong>, <strong>Kyle Sunden \u201916<\/strong>, and <strong>Kamal Kamalaldin \u201917<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Left to right in the photo, they are Kamal, Kyle, Sarah, Raoul, Abhay, Jacob, and Professor Cutter.<\/p>\n<p>Full results from the regional competition are here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ecna15.kattis.com\/standings?filter=375\">https:\/\/ecna15.kattis.com\/standings?filter=375<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}