{"id":3642,"date":"2013-11-13T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:25:14","slug":"hornet-teams-display-computing-power-in-acm-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/hornet-teams-display-computing-power-in-acm-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornet Teams Display Computing Power in ACM Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3650\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Orange-Hornets1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3650 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Orange-Hornets1-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors Kyle Sunden, Lucas Kushner and Fayang Pan at the ACM competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Orange-Hornets1-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Orange-Hornets1-353x300.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Orange-Hornets1.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange Hornets (l-r) Kyle Sunden, Lucas Kushner, and Fayang Pan, all seniors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two teams of Kalamazoo College students recently competed and computed in the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Intercollegiate Regional Programming competition. When the dust settled, the Orange and Black left some big competitors feeling blue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Orange Hornets team of seniors <strong>Lucas Kushner<\/strong>, <strong>Fayang Pan<\/strong>, and <strong>Kyle Sunden<\/strong> solved two of nine problems and placed 34<sup>th<\/sup> out of about 126 teams from 61 colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario, and Indiana. The Black Hornets team of seniors <strong><strong>Tibin John <\/strong><\/strong>and <strong>Will Reichle<\/strong> and sophomore <strong>Sarah Manski<\/strong> also solved two of nine problems and finished 40<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of both time and correct submissions, with penalties for incorrect submissions,\u201d explained K Associate Professor of Computer Science <strong>Pam Cutter<\/strong> who accompanied the teams to the competition held at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Orange Hornets solved the first problem in 50 minutes with three incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 2:30 with one incorrect attempt. The Black Hornets solved the first problem in 1:41 with two incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 3:39 with one incorrect attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, K teams placed 39<sup>th<\/sup> and 53<sup>rd<\/sup> out of 131 teams.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3651 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Will Reichle, sophomore Sarah Manski and senior Tibin John at the ACM Competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets-383x300.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Hornets (l-r) senior Will Reichle, sophomore Sarah Manski, and senior Tibin John.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2013 competition included teams from big institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, University of Toronto, and University of Michigan\u2014some of which finished behind Cutter\u2019s Hornet squads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am quite proud of our teams,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you see this gang, give them a \u201cGood job!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACM is the world\u2019s largest educational and scientific computing society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams of Kalamazoo College students recently competed and computed in the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Intercollegiate Regional Programming competition. 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Lucas Kushner, and Fayang Pan, all seniors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two teams of Kalamazoo College students recently competed and computed in the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Intercollegiate Regional Programming competition. When the dust settled, the Orange and Black left some big competitors feeling blue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Orange Hornets team of seniors <strong>Lucas Kushner<\/strong>, <strong>Fayang Pan<\/strong>, and <strong>Kyle Sunden<\/strong> solved two of nine problems and placed 34<sup>th<\/sup> out of about 126 teams from 61 colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario, and Indiana. The Black Hornets team of seniors <strong><strong>Tibin John <\/strong><\/strong>and <strong>Will Reichle<\/strong> and sophomore <strong>Sarah Manski<\/strong> also solved two of nine problems and finished 40<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of both time and correct submissions, with penalties for incorrect submissions,\u201d explained K Associate Professor of Computer Science <strong>Pam Cutter<\/strong> who accompanied the teams to the competition held at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Orange Hornets solved the first problem in 50 minutes with three incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 2:30 with one incorrect attempt. The Black Hornets solved the first problem in 1:41 with two incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 3:39 with one incorrect attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, K teams placed 39<sup>th<\/sup> and 53<sup>rd<\/sup> out of 131 teams.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3651 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/11\/CM-2013-Black-Hornets-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Will Reichle, sophomore Sarah Manski and senior Tibin John at the ACM Competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Hornets (l-r) senior Will Reichle, sophomore Sarah Manski, and senior Tibin John.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2013 competition included teams from big institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, University of Toronto, and University of Michigan\u2014some of which finished behind Cutter\u2019s Hornet squads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am quite proud of our teams,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you see this gang, give them a \u201cGood job!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACM is the world\u2019s largest educational and scientific computing society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}