Virginia Tech computer programming teams take top honors in mid-Atlantic contest

Abstract

Virginia Tech students won first place and three other top-12 places--third, fifth and twelfth--during the 2003 Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming Contest on Nov. 8 at Radford University. The contest, sponsored by IBM, drew a record number of participants, with 161 teams from 73 colleges and universities competing at nine sites throughout the mid-Atlantic region.