{"id":540,"date":"2007-04-20T23:53:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T04:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-04-21T00:20:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T05:20:33","slug":"umm-unofficially-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/20\/umm-unofficially-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"UMM (unofficially) rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/276227701\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/85\/276227701_fab9b7d6e9_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Victory!!!\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe just got back from the MICS programming contest, and it looks like one of our teams took first, with another placing 8th out of 42 teams.  (These are unofficial results, but I&#8217;m pretty sure these are solid.)  Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>One of our teams took first at <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/10\/many-congratulations-to-go-around\/\">the MICS contest this time last year<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/30\/another-fine-showing-at-digi-key\/\">first at Digi-Key in the fall<\/a>.  Well done teams!<\/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>We just got back from the MICS programming contest, and it looks like one of our teams took first, with another placing 8th out of 42 teams. (These are unofficial results, but I&#8217;m pretty sure these are solid.) Huzzah! One of our teams took first at the MICS contest this time last year, and first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/20\/umm-unofficially-rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UMM (unofficially) rocks!&#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":[4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-8I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":541,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/22\/umm-csci-officially-rocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":540,"position":0},"title":"UMM CSci officially rocks!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"22 Apr 07","format":false,"excerpt":"We're back safe and sound from an extremely successful MICS conference, at least in terms of our CSci students doing some great work. 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