Unleashing Potential
As UCF approaches its 60th anniversary next year, we continue to focus on unleashing the potential of people and ideas to change the world.
In a battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance, a team of three Knights spent five hours solving complex real-world problems to secure seventh place in the 2022 North American Championship of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The competition, which was hosted at UCF, pits teams from 50 elite institutions against each other for a chance to earn one of 17 spots at the World Finals. Rising above competitors from Stanford, Columbia, Harvard and Cornell, UCF Computer Programming Team Iris — which includes students Daniel West and Seba Villalobos — has secured their second chance to prove they’re world champions.
“Qualifying for World Finals not once, but twice, was my goal since I joined UCF, so I’m happy I achieved it.”
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Hours Team Iris has spent practicing since last year’s competition
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Students who competed in teams of three in the 2022 ICPC North American Championship
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Consecutive years UCF has advanced to the ICPC World Finals
UCF hosted 150 of the nation’s best computer programming students — including three Knights — in the Student Union’s Pegasus Ballroom for the competition.
Daniel West (left), Sharon Barak ’21 ’22MS (center) and Seba Villalobos (right) competed as Team Iris in the ICPC North American Championship.