WORLD’S ELITE HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMMERS TO COMPETE IN LIVE TOPCODER HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT
Earthtimes
Feb 28 2008
UK
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ — TopCoder(R), Inc.,
the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and
competitive software development, today announced the 49 finalists
from around the world who have earned a spot in the TopCoder High
School Tournament finals (finalist names and countries below). The
TopCoder High School Tournament is the premier computer programming
tournament for high school-aged math and science students, ages 13
to 18, enrolled in secondary schools or equivalent programs world-wide.
Competition began online in December 2007, challenging math and
computer science students to demonstrate their problem-solving skills
by unraveling complex word problems by writing computer programs that
solve the problems. TopCoder’s tournament finals will bring together
49 of the most talented high school programmers from 16 countries,
in quest of bragging rights, scholarships and cash prizes worth more
than $50,000.
"The competitive technical nature of today’s world makes it more
important than ever to encourage, reward and recognize those who
possess the skills to shape tomorrow’s software innovations," said
Rob Hughes, president and COO for TopCoder. "TopCoder’s High School
and College tournaments provide students from around the world with a
fun and competitive learning environment to build and showcase their
talent, and see how they rate compared to other top technical minds
of their generation."
TopCoder High School Tournament participants are provided problems
and challenges similar to those that are used in actual TopCoder
competitions to build real software for many of the world’s most
recognized brands, such as AOL, ESPN and VeriSign. This provides an
unprecedented real-world learning environment that introduces high
school students to algorithm, design and development practices. The
TopCoder competitions cultivate software design and development skills
that are in the highest demand, showcasing individuals for college
admissions and job recruitment by top employers like Eli Lilly,
Deutsche Bank and the U.S. National Security Agency.
The 2008 TopCoder High School Tournament, an annual competition, will
take place on March 15, 2008 at the Lawson Building on the campus
of Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA. More information,
including a tournament program, on-site schedule and profiles of this
year’s finalists, visit:
2008 TopCoder High School Tournament Finalists Maciej Andrejczuk
(Bialystok, Poland) Marcin Andrychowicz (Grojec, Poland) Filip
Barl (Zagreb, Croatia) Mikita Belahlazau (Minsk, Belarus) Anton
Bogatyy (Moscow, Russian Federation) Miroslav Bogdanovic (Beograd,
Serbia) Wenyu Cao (Belle Mead, NJ, United States) Alexey Cherepanov
(Stavropol, Russian Federation) Ziheng Deng (Zhongshan City, China)
Ivaylo Enchev (Shumen, Bulgaria) Valentin Fondaratov (St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation) Yan Gu (Zhongshan, Guangdong, China) Prashanth Guru
(Scarborogh, Canada) Sibo He (Zhongshan, China) Rumen Hristov (Shumen,
Bulgaria) Petar Ivanov (Shumen, Bulgaria) Igor Jerkovic (Zagreb,
Croatia) Adam Karczmarz (Stalowa Wola, Poland) Michal Karpinski
(Jaslo, Poland) Ivica Kicic (Zagreb, Croatia) Maciej Klimek (Gorzow
Wielkopolski, Poland) Pawel Klimek (Radom, Poland) Frane Kurtovic
(Zagreb, Croatia) Nikolay Kuznetsov (Saratov, Russian Federation)
Spencer Liang (Cupertino, CA, United States) Sergey Melnikov (Vologda,
Russian Federation) Miroslaw Michalski (Gdynia, Poland) Florian Moga
(Sacele, Romania) Leo Osvald (Zagreb, Croatia) Filip Pavetic (Kriz,
Croatia) Bruno Rahle (Zagreb, Croatia) Marek Rogala (Gdansk, Poland)
Vidya Sagar (Chennai, India) Hayk Saribekyan (Yerevan, Armenia)
Jonathan Schneider (Toronto, Canada) Sergey Serebryakov (Petrozavodsk,
Russian Federation) Marcel Stockli Contreras (Guanajuato, Mexico)
Szilveszter Szebeni (Budaors, Hungary) Momchil Tomov (Pleven,
Bulgaria) Timur Valiev (Kazan, Russian Federation) Levan Varamashvili
(Tbilisi, Georgia) Hanson Wang (Toronto, Canada) Ye Wang (Wuhu, China)
Nathan Watson (Lubbock, TX, United States) Neal Wu (Baton Rouge, LA,
United States) Yi Yang (Wuhu, China) Arman Yessenamanov (Ekibastuz,
Kazakhstan) Dong Zhou (Wuhu, China) Goran Zuzic (Zagreb, Croatia)
About TopCoder, Inc.
TopCoder is the world’s largest competitive software development
community with over 140,000 developers representing more than
200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive
developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder
community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a
competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology
results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a
software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes
this large library of software components built through competition
available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and
this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development
while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed
and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information
about utilizing TopCoder’s software services or sponsoring TopCoder
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