Syria crowned champion of Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) Competition in Egypt
Syria has become the champion of the 47th Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) Competition held in Luxor, Egypt, over several days.
300 teams, the best out of about 40,000 teams around the world, that competed in the qualifiers.
Coordinator of the programming competition at the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology in Syria Samih Jammoul said in a statement to SANA on Saturday that the institute’s team “nON-sTOP” won the title of champion following competitions that lasted several days.
The team comprised the scientific supervisor Samer Al-Shehabi, and the contestants, Bashar Hussein, Mahmoud Haddad, and Kifah Hilal.
It is to be noted that 9 Syrian teams from the universities of Damascus, Aleppo, Tishreen, Al-Baath, the Syrian Virtual University and the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology took part in the competitions of the 46th and 47th editions of the ICPC championship in Egypt, which is the largest representation of an Arab country out of 25 teams representing the Arab world.
This edition of the competition is the largest and most important in the field of software in the world, with 2,500 contestants participating, representing 2,000 universities from 111 countries around the world, and the competition has become a global platform that brings together university students from all over the world.
The competitions lasted for five continuous hours during which contestants solve a set of problems that require a high ability of analysis, logical thinking, and programming algorithms.
Hamda Mustafa