I never got around to posting this at the time, but back in October one of our teams (The Algonauts) from UMM took first in the annual Collegiate Computing Competition hosted by the fine folks at Digi-Key.
The students won tons of swag on the day (including $200 each for the winning team). Curt Huot from Digi-Key came down to UMM today to present the traveling trophy (which we get to have in our display case for the next year) and the check for $3K to the CSci discipline, all because the Algonauts took first!
Front, from L to R: Tyler Hutchison (holding the trophy), me (receiving the check), Curt (passing along the check). In back, L to R, Andy Korth, and Scott Lembcke. Daniel Selifonov (the fourth team member) was (and I’m not making this up!) too pumped about working on a homework assignment with his group to come down and be in the photo. These crazy students… I obviously didn’t take this shot – thanks to Michael Korth for sharing his photo.
I did take a ton of pictures on the day, a few of which I cleaned up and posted on Flickr (including the Victory celebration below). I also dumped a bunch of unedited shots on my events Flickr account.
Again, big congrats to all the students!
