04/08/2015
The Department of Computing Sciences launched a programming competition for the department’s students and IT learners on Tuesday, August 04, 2015. The competition was held at the Department of Computing Sciences at Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.
The competition was open to pre-college students, age 19 and under, who are attending schools in the Eastern Cape and/or taught in the Eastern Cape regarding computers and information technology (IT). The competition was also attended by various Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan University students. Teams of three competed against each other to solve the most programming problems within three hours.
The competition was supported by various sponsors, which made it possible for students to attain its possible goals to reach the next level of computer programming. Sponsors include Comair, BBD, IBM, Cortex Hub, Amazon, SEDA and ELCB.
With the 13 schools registered in the Eastern Cape, the programming competition was supported by two satellite venues which contained 18 teams and 54 learners. From East London- Stirling High School- 5 teams, Clarendon High School for Girls- 4 teams, Hudson Park High School- 1 team, Selborne College- 2 teams. From George- Outeniqua High School- 3 teams, Glenwood House School- 2 and York High School- 1 team.
In Port Elizabeth a total of 5 schools with 24 teams and 72 learners took part in the programming competition where NMMU had 21 teams and 60 learners. A grand total of 13 schools, 63 teams and 186 learners took part in the annual programming competition on the day.
The overall winners was from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Second Student Team winners was a first year group from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Third Place were third year students from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the winners of the School’s Competition category were Grey High School and Top Grade 11 Team are from Pearson High School.
