UAB Announces Winners Of High School Programming Contest

Teams and individual students from Huntsville, Mobile and Birmingham took the top three spots in the recent 2006 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) High School Programming Contest. Forty students from 12 Alabama high schools participated in the contest, an outreach of the UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS). Students met UAB faculty and toured the department, including stops at the state’s fastest computer and the new visualization room.

May 23, 2006

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Teams and individual students from Huntsville, Mobile and Birmingham took the top three spots in the recent 2006 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) High School Programming Contest. Forty students from 12 Alabama high schools participated in the contest, an outreach of the UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS). Students met UAB faculty and toured the department, including stops at the state’s fastest computer and the new visualization room.

Team competition winners were: first place (with a perfect score), Bob Jones High School in Madison; second place, the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile; and third place, the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham.

Individual winners (all with perfect scores) and their prizes were:

  • First place (Xbox, Microsoft Visual Studio license): Shane Fry of Bob Jones
  • Second place ($50 gift certificate, Visual Studio license): Matt Holt of Bob Jones
  • Third place (Visual Studio license): Ryan Muller of Vestavia Hills High School
  • Fourth place (computer science textbook from Addison-Wesley): John Hergenroeder of Bob Jones

 

The top 15 students each received a computer science textbook from Addison-Wesley.

Students were asked to solve six computer problems of varying difficulty and were judged on accuracy and speed.

Other participating schools were: the Heritage Academy, Hoover High School, Jefferson County Inter-Baccalaureate, Mountain Brook High School and Oak Mountain High School in the Birmingham area; Grissom High School and the Randolph School in Huntsville; and Heritage Family Academy in Pell City.

In addition to the UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences, sponsors were Addison-Wesley, CTS Inc. and Microsoft. To be placed on a mailing list for the 2007 contest, write to [hspc@cis.uab.edu.]