SNU Wins Silver Medal at an International Programming Contest for Undergraduates
- The Largest Contest on Programming Hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Placed 7^th Out of 135 Teams… SNU Receives Medal for Three Consecutive Years


▲ Team Representing SNU at the ICPC (Donghyun Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Seungwon Shin, and Coach Heon Young Yeom)

 
SNU students participated in the largest international contest on programming and were nominated as medal recipients.
 
SNU College of Engineering (Dean Kookheon Char) announced on 29^th that undergraduates from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering had received the silver medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
 
Team 789 of SNU (Donghyun Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Seungwon Shin, and Professor Heon Young Yeom) placed 7^th out of the 135 teams at the finals held in Porto, Portugal on April 4^th to receive their silver medals. This is the third consecutive year for SNU to have medal recipients following a gold medal in 2017 and a silver medal in 2018.
 
The ICPC is a contest that challenges its participants to solve complicated programming problems within limited amount of time. The contest, targeted toward undergraduates worldwide, has been hosted annually since 1977.
 
A total of 52,709 undergraduates from 110 countries and 3,233 universities took part in this contest, competing against each other first in the regional contests. The 135 teams consisting of 405 students that demonstrated outstanding performance in the regional contests were invited to the World Finals for another round of competition.
 
The team representing Moscow State University won the first place in the World Finals this year. The team from KAIST ranked 24^th while the team from KimChaek University of Technology, North Korea, also won the silver medal by ranking 8^th.