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SAN ANTONIO - Four computer science students at Trinity University placed third among 69 teams from colleges competing in a regional contest sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.
The group known as the Trinity Tigers placed second among Division II schools, those without graduate programs in computer science, and third overall among 69 teams from 41 schools in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
Tom Bankston, a junior from Houston, said the competition was "intense but fun." Each team was given five hours to solve eight computer problems by determining patterns and using logic. Trinity’s computer science team solved four of the problems, as did students from Texas Tech and Baylor universities, but the Tigers answered the questions in less time. "The winning team solved five problems, so we were pretty close," Mr. Bankston said. The Tigers prepared for the contest by holding a mock competition weekly throughout the fall semester, he added.
The contest was held in November at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Other students on the Trinity computer science team were Dimitri Brown, a junior from Houston, and Ben Truitt, a junior from Littleton, Colorado. Serving as an alternate on the team was Chris Smith, a first-year student from Boise, Idaho.
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