USD Hosts High School Robotics Competition in Rapid City
USD's computer science program sponsors the High School Robotic Programming Contest every year in Vermillion and this year added the Rapid City competition. Teams are given parts and instructions ahead of time and must build robots that compete against each other. The 36th annual Computer Science Programming Competition is in April on the USD campus in Vermillion.
The five teams competing Thursday in Rapid City are from four high schools: Todd County on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Belle Fourche, Lead/Deadwood and Edgemont.
USD's computer science students recently placed seventh out of 223 teams from more than 60 universities and colleges in a competition, the best among schools in the Dakotas. The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among universities worldwide. USD took part in a regional ACM event that included schools from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and western Ontario and Manitoba in Canada. USD team members included Kurtis Van Gent, Ben Erickson and Mitchell Peterson.
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