Our team’s second place in AMPPZ 2023!
Success achieved by our team at the AMPPZ (Polish Collegiate Programming Contest), held this weekend at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw.
The UWr1 team composed of Krzysztof Boryczka, Antoni Buraczewski, and Łukasz Pluta placed second and won the gold medal! The team’s scientific supervisors are prof. Paweł Gawrychowski, Bartłomiej Dudek and prof. Krzysztof Loryś.
Our other teams placed:
5. UWr 2 – Marcin Knapik, Mateusz Orda, Adam Zyzik (silver medal)
11. UWr 6 – Igor Hańczaruk, Krzysztof Olejnik, Damian Sosulski (bronze medal)
12. UWr 5 – Bartosz Chomiński, Marcel Szelwiga, Olaf Surgut (bronze medal)
The title of Academic Champions of Poland goes to Jagiellonian University!
The first place among the (out-of-competition) high school students was achieved by the team from LO XIV in Wrocław, composed of Rafał Mańczyk, Marek Muzyka and Paulina Żeleźnik.
Our congratulations!
The Polish Collegiate Programming Contest is an opportunity to demonstrate and improve skills in team-based IT problem-solving. Each team consists of up to three people, and each university can submit only one team to the competition. Teams are given from 8 to 12 programming tasks, the solutions to which must be demonstrated in C or C++. It is not only the number of tasks solved that counts but also the time in which the team manages to do so. Often it is the time that determines the team’s position in the competition.
The history of ACM-ICPC contests dates back to the 1970s. Nowadays, they are a multi-stage system of regional and worldwide competitions held on six continents, in almost 100 countries. More than 2,000 universities and almost 30,000 students take part. The host organisers themselves say of the competitions bluntly and without false modesty that it is ‘the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world’. Our students have been competing in regional contests since the 1990s and, in 2005, they first reached the finals.
Translated by Justyna Janik (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
