Luther students compete at national computer programming test

Six Luther students put their computer programming skills to work recently when they competed in the North Central North America regional portion of the 35th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM.

A team comprised of Luther senior Adam Voss and juniors Jake Nowosatka and Matthew Kalsow finished 64th in the competition, solving three of the nine problems.  A second team, comprised of Luther juniors Jacob Blain, Andrew Zutz and Daniel Flucke, solved two of the nine problems, placing 96th overall.

Luther competed with teams from Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Macalester College, Saint John's University and St. Olaf College.  The national competition attracted more than 200 teams to 17 regional competition sites.