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May 22, 2007
Russian, Croatian and US High School Programmers Win TopCoder Championship at Purdue University : GlobalGiants.com
First World Championship for TopCoder High School Members Sees Eastern Europe Prevail in Individual and Team Tournaments.
Photo: TopCoder High School Champion Yury Petrov of Saint Petersburg. (Topcoder, Inc.)
Photo: Team V. Gimnazija of Zagreb, Croatia. (PRNewsFoto/Topcoder, Inc.)
TopCoder(R), Inc., a leading online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software developer, has announced the winners in the first ever TopCoder High School global programming tournament hosted by Purdue University on May 19th 2007. Forty-seven elite competitors from the U.S., China, Russian Federation, Australia, Poland, Romania, Kazakhstan, Canada, Bulgaria, Croatia and the Ukraine representing themselves, their schools and their countries competed in a challenging contest of computing skills for a share of $50,000 in scholarship awards.
Purdue University was founded in 1869 and is one of the largest four-year universities in the United States. More than 38,000 students from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, three territories, residents abroad, and 126 foreign nations study at the West Lafayette campus, and more than 30,000 are enrolled at other campuses and locations. |GlobalGiants.com|
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