On Nov. 5, Park's Information and Computer Science Department participated in the annual Association for Computing Machinery programming contest at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Park's team consisted of junior Nick Kreeger and senior Josh McKinzie. The coaches were Wen Hsin, Ph.D., associate professor of information and computer science, and John Dean, assistant professor of information and computer science.

Ten colleges and universities participated in the Western Missouri portion of the competition, including teams from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Northwest Missouri State, Rockhurst University and Central Missouri State University. Park University's team earned first place.

The purpose of the contest was to solve as many questions as possible within a five-hour duration. The teams had nine problems to attempt to solve. The judges determine which teams answer the most questions correctly. Park won the contest by completing a third problem with only 15 minutes to spare.

"Despite a last minute flurry of solution submissions by the other teams, none were able to solve a third problem," said Dean.

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