Russian students won five medals in a total of twelve competitions at the Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) held from May 27 -31 in Orlando, Florida this year. The student team from St. Petersburg State University, in particular, won the 4th place gold medal at the IBM-sponsored championship.
Two teams, one from Nizhny Novgorod and the other from Saratov, won silver medals, while a team from Moscow and one from Ural State University each received bronze medals.
But the first place gold medal was taken unexpectedly by the team from China’s Zhejiang University. Teams from the University of Michigan and Tsinghua University (China) won 2nd and 3rd place gold medals respectively.
“This contest has a huge echo among Russian computer sciences students,” said Alexander Ivanov, a Moscow student and editorial assistant at EWDN who participated in the semi finals. “In Moscow alone, hundreds of students participated, some of them prepared for years.”
