School of Computing hosts successful NestForAwhile programming competition

The University of North Florida School of Computing recently hosted the Fall 2024 NestForAwhile Team programming competition, an in-person coding contest challenging students to display their best coding and problem-solving capabilities. VyStar Credit Union sponsored prize awards.

Categorized as "nestling" or "fledgling" based on Programming II course completion, the 41 teams of 100 UNF students worked on solving 10 programming problems with varying difficulty levels and associated points. Most submissions were written using Java, Python and C.

The top placing teams were as follows:

• First Place:Joseph Cagle, Hayden Dansereau and Troy Kidd solved nine problems, winning $1,000.
• Second Place:Jacomo Corrieri and James Newman solved nine problems, winning $500.
• Third Place:Raymond Clines, Tanner Dewit and Daniel Reinecke solved seven problems, winning $250.
• Nestling Team Award:DaMonne Allen, Luke Wassung and Brennen Pemberton solved five problems, winning $50.

Students who solved at least one problem received a license to access Google Cloud Skills Boost, which is a training center for Google Cloud infrastructure.

The problem sets for the competition was prepared by School of Computing faculty Richard Lentz, Larry Snedden, Dr. Kevin Pfeil, Dr. Iman Vakilinia, Dr. Indika Kahanda and Dr. Anirban Ghosh. Dr. Karthik Umapathy managed the registration and DomJudge competition system; Cesar Castellon from ITS managed the implementation and configuration of the DomJudge system.