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\nWe’re back safe and sound from an extremely successful MICS conference<\/a>, at least in terms of our CSci students doing some great work. One of our teams (Andy Korth, Tyler Hutchison, and Scott Lembcke, L to R in photo) did in fact<\/a> take first (out of 42 teams) in the programming contest.<\/p>\n

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\nWe were pretty sure that we were going to hear UMM’s name called out during the programming contest awards, but we didn’t know how the best student paper awards were likely to go. We had four student papers in the pool, and they were all good work, so it certainly seemed possible, but you never know with these things. We were thus very excited when Tyler and Andy received one of the two best undergraduate paper awards for the paper that they did with me! The photo above is Tyler during their presentation (they did it jointly), with some of his excellent artwork visible in the slide. <\/p>\n

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All<\/em> our students did a great job and represented UMM well. As you can see from the photo above (taken right after the programming contest ended), they didn’t take it too seriously, which was indicative of our students’ general attitude towards the event. They did good work, had a good time, and got along really well together. More than one person actually commented on what cool students we had, and I must say I agree :-). Well done all!<\/p>\n

I’ve posted a bunch of photos<\/a> from the event on my events account on Flickr, and another set with too many shots from the robot competition<\/a>. (We didn’t have any teams entered in that competition.) None of these are cleaned and edited, so take them for what they are (which isn’t<\/em> high art!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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