{"id":3537,"date":"2017-05-05T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:06:54","slug":"spc-2nd-place-programming-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/spc-2nd-place-programming-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg College takes 2nd place in Intercollegiate Programming Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College participated in the Intercollegiate Programming Competition (IPC) on Saturday, April 22 along with 11 other institutions in the Florida College System where they came in second place overall.<\/p>\n<h2>Titans programming as hard as they fight<\/h2>\n<p>Programming students: Joshua Welch, Logan Metzen, and Evan Miller had three hours to write programs that solved eight quite tricky problems using the programming language of their choice. Each problem contained a set of requirements describing what needed to be done to solve it. Student scores were awarded based on both correct solutions and the least time taken to solve.<\/p>\n<h3>We have the second best programmer in the Florida College System<\/h3>\n<p>Using Java as his programming language Evan Miller from SPC worked diligently for three hours to solve the problems. He was matched with a student from Valencia College on accuracy but, the Valencia student completed earlier which put Evan in second place. Evan was awarded $250 for his outstanding performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Title\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3zNW6UnEQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Faculty Comments<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;It was very exciting for me and Dawn (CCIT Academic Chair) because we were watching a live spreadsheet that updated each time a contestant submitted a solution. It was like watching a horse race.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very proud of the students and can&#8217;t wait to compete again next year. Congratulations to Evan, Josh Welsh, and Logan Metzen for this amazing result!&#8221; &#8211; Brad Yourth, SPC Programming Instructor<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time SPC participated in the competition which started back in 2005. I am very proud of the students who competed. Having a second place winner speaks to the quality of the Programming and Analysis A.S., and the faculty who support it.&#8221; &#8211; Dawn Ellis, SPC Academic Chair and Programming Instructor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>You can be the next competitor!<\/h3>\n<p>SPC offers through hands-on-training a Computer Programming and Analysis degree that will teach you the basics of databases and programming. All classes in the program are taught in state-of-the-art computer labs with the most popular software and hardware. This program includes an internship, adding valuable experience to your education.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/technology\">St. Petersburg College&#8217;s Technology Degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3572\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/2ndPlaceTeam1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3572 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/2ndPlaceTeam1.jpg\" alt=\"SPC programming student competitiors and faculty members\" width=\"960\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/2ndPlaceTeam1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/2ndPlaceTeam1-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/2ndPlaceTeam1-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left to Right: Dawn Ellis- Academic Chair, Joshua Welsh- Student, Evan Miller- Student, Logan Metzen- Student, Brad Yourth- Faculty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming students: Joshua Welch, Logan Metzen, and Evan Miller had three hours to write programs that solved eight quite tricky problems using the programming language of their choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}