{"352281":{"#nid":"352281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Programmers Place High in ACM Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech teams recently scored high honors at the 2014 Southeast Region of the ACM Programming Competition, with one team securing a spot for the World Finals next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree tech teams \u2013 Yellow Jackets, Buzz, and Engineers \u2013 placed first, second, and third respectively at the competition held on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u0026nbsp; Additionally, team Yellow Jackets finished second in the overall competition and has been chosen to participate in the 2015 World Finals Competition, which will be held May 16 to 21, 2015, in Morocco.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing and the Office of Outreach Enrollment \u0026amp; Community hosted the 2014 Southeast Region of the Competition.\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech hosted 67 teams, with 13 originating from Tech and 17 visiting from other institutions from around the region.\u0026nbsp; The Florida Institute of Technology hosted 30 teams, while the University of West Florida in Pensacola hosted 15 teams.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETroy Peace, the college\u2019s director of community, served as site director, while Debbie Davis and Keith Watson provided IT expertise and Alyshia Jackson and her mother, Donna Jackson, provided onsite support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe top rankings were as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDivision 1, Georgia Tech site:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYellow Jackets, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBuzz, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEngineers, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDivision 1, overall:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUCF Decimole, University of Central Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYellow Jackets, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESee Alice\u00c2\u00ae, Florida Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech teams sweep Top 3 positions in division competition; Yellow Jackets team finish second in overall contest, earning spot in World Finals"}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-12-05 10:08:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"352261":{"id":"352261","type":"image","title":"GT Programmers Place High in ACM Competition Feature Image","body":null,"created":"1449245714","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:14","changed":"1475895078","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:18","alt":"GT Programmers Place High in ACM Competition Feature Image","file":{"fid":"201139","name":"gtprogrammersplacehighinacmcompetition.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtprogrammersplacehighinacmcompetition_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtprogrammersplacehighinacmcompetition_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2174019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gtprogrammersplacehighinacmcompetition_0.jpeg?itok=LJBmI8C3"}}},"media_ids":["352261"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3047","name":"ACM"},{"id":"111621","name":"ACM Programming Competition"},{"id":"111631","name":"Programming World Finals Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews and Media Relations Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}