{"id":135481,"date":"2023-05-30T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//?p=135481"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:17:25","slug":"3-ucf-teammates-advance-in-elite-north-america-computing-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//3-ucf-teammates-advance-in-elite-north-america-computing-championship/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481//","title":{"rendered":"3 UCF Teammates Advance in Elite North America Computing Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three UCF teammates competed in the 2023 (ICPC) North America Championship on Monday against 150 of the best and brightest computer programming students in the U.S. and Canada./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

Out of 51 university teams, UCF ranked 17th /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u2014 besting Ivy League institutions including Yale, Princeton and Brown and earning a spot in the 2023 ICPC World Finals later this year./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

Fifty-one universities assembled three-member teams of elite programmers who train rigorously throughout the year to compete at solving real-world, and highly complex, computer programming challenges. In this intense battle of the brains, students raced against the clock in a five-hour competition of logic, strategy and mental endurance./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

Out of 51 university teams, UCF ranked 17th /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u2014 besting Ivy League institutions including Yale, Princeton and Brown and earning a spot in the 2023 ICPC World Finals later this year./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

UCF not only competed in the North America Championship, but also hosted the event on their home turf: UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u2019s main campus in Orlando./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

Computer science undergraduate Natalie Longtin, and computer science alumni Andy Phan /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u201921 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u201923MS and Jacob Steinbronn /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u201923 applied their advanced problem-solving skills and collaborative teamwork at the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest North America Championship./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n

UCF earned its spot to compete in Monday/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u2019s ICPC North America Championship after Longtin, Phan and Steinbronn finished 2nd in the ICPC Southeast USA region in February. The region includes universities from five states. UCF has placed in the top three in ICPC/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/u2019s Southeast Region for 40 consecutive years, a record unmatched by any other school./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135481/n