{"id":404,"date":"2006-11-28T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/11\/28\/umm-students-bringing-in-the-big-bucks\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:49:02","slug":"umm-students-bringing-in-the-big-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/11\/28\/umm-students-bringing-in-the-big-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"UMM students bringing in the big bucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nics_events\/308854787\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/111\/308854787_0e9317dc2a.jpg?w=840\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nics_events\/308854787\/\">Presenting trophy and check<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/nics_events\/\">Nic&#8217;s events<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tI never got around to posting this at the time, but back in October one of our teams (The Algonauts) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">UMM<\/a> took first in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/dkc1.digikey.com\/us\/en\/careers\/IT\/ComputingCompetitionWinners_2006.html\">Collegiate Computing Competition<\/a> hosted by the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/digikey.com\/\">Digi-Key<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The students won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/ummnews\/View.php?itemID=1623\">tons of swag on the day<\/a> (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!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8230;  I obviously didn&#8217;t take this shot &#8211; thanks to Michael Korth for sharing his photo.<\/p>\n<p>I did take a <em>ton<\/em> of pictures on the day, a few of which I cleaned up and <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/sets\/72157594339688792\/\">posted on Flickr<\/a> (including the Victory celebration below).  I also dumped a bunch of unedited shots on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/nics_events\/sets\/72157594345250777\/\">my events Flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/276227701\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/85\/276227701_fab9b7d6e9.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Victory!!!\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, big congrats to all the students!<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting trophy and check, originally uploaded by Nic&#8217;s events. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/11\/28\/umm-students-bringing-in-the-big-bucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UMM students bringing in the big bucks!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-6w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":296,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/13\/thanks-pete\/","url_meta":{"origin":404,"position":0},"title":"Thanks, Pete","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"13 Jan 06","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish I could take credit for this incredibly cool photo, but I can't. The wonderful shot on the right is by D. James from Flickr. Equally excellent is the tale he tells with it; I'll make you click through to check that out. I will say, however, that both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/42\/84117935_1d2ee39b0e_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1265,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/10\/im-published-in-cacm-but-not-in-the-way-one-might-have-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":404,"position":1},"title":"I&#8217;m published in CACM! 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The wind\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Reflecting on pasts and futures","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4019\/4612590906_047ded6867.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/05\/24-hours-of-flickr\/","url_meta":{"origin":404,"position":4},"title":"24 Hours of Flickr","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 May 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Popu, originally uploaded by fraud_art. The Flickr folks are finally getting around to doing a \"Day in the life of Flickr\" sort of event called \"24 Hours of Flickr\". (It seems like such an obvious idea, I'm really surprised they haven't done it earlier.) 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