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Mathematics and Computer Science Department Hosted High School Programming Contest

Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010

Westminster College's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, in conjunction with Westminster's Admissions Office, hosted its annual high school programming contest Oct. 18.

Eleven teams from four area high schools worked over two hours on six computer programming problems. Students submitted solutions and received feedback from the judges electronically, while an electronic score sheet displayed updated results throughout the contest. Scoring for each problem was based on the elapsed time as well as the number of incorrect submissions.

Participating high schools and their coaches were: Baldwin High School coached by Jay Closky; Blackhawk High School coached by Jim Cox; North Allegheny High School coached by Laura Prosser; and Seneca Valley High School coached by Chad Robertson.

North Allegheny High School captured the top three spots.
- First place honors went to "Java++" with team members Kostya Borisov, Skanda Koppula, Neel Krishna, and Sravya Vishnubhatla.
- Second place was awarded to "The Manpersands," whose team members included Mark Freithaler, Ricky Kotermanski, Dominic LaBella, and Robert Whitmore.
- Third place was earned by "The Prossers++" with team members Will Dignazio, Shane Smith, Artem Talanov, and Jonathan Timcheck.

The contest was designed and supervised by Dr. John Bonomo, Westminster associate professor of computer science. Bonomo is active in organizing and contributing problems to programming contests. He has served as head judge for the ACM East Regional Programming Contest since 2000 and as a judge and problem contributor for international competitions for the past eight years. His most recent competitions were Banff, Canada, in 2008; Stockholm, Sweden, in 2009; and Harbin, China, in February.

Bonomo was assisted by Dr. David Shaffer, Westminster associate professor of computer science, as well as Westminster sophomore computer science majors Anthony Caratelli and Danny Solomon.

Caratelli is a son of Arthur and Lesa Caratelli of Darlington and a graduate of Blackhawk High School.

Solomon is a son of Daniel and Denise Solomon of New Wilmington and a graduate of Mercer Area High School.

Contact Bonomo at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail bonomojp@westminster.edu for additional information.

First place team (l-r): Laura Prosser, Sravya Vishnubhatla, Neel Krishna, Skanda Koppula, Kostya Borisov, Dr. John Bonomo
Second place team (l-r): Laura Prosser, Dominic LaBella, Ricky Kotermanski, Mark Freithaler, Robert Whitmore, Dr. John Bonomo
Third place team (l-r): Laura Prosser, Will Dignazio, Shane Smith, Artem Talanov, Jonathan Timcheck, Dr. John Bonomo