On November 10, 2019, 4 UFAZ teams participated in the 44th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) on sub-regional level, held in Baku Engineering University and sponsored by PASHA Bank.

Overall 53 teams from 18 higher education institutions took part in the competition. Participants were asked to solve 13 algorithmic problems using C, C++, Java and Python programming languages. The assessment was carried out based on an automatic evaluation system.

2nd year students Nadir Shikhli, Rustam Aliyev and 4th year student Kamal Aghayev from Computer Science specialty won the 3rd place of the contest, while the other 3 UFAZ teams won 5th, 11th and 19th places respectively.

Winners received rewards from PASHA Bank and Baku Engineering University.

To recall, 36 teams will be representing Azerbaijan in semi-finals of 44th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia on November 29-December 1.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest traces its roots back to 1970. It is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Teams of three, representing their university, work to solve the most real-world problems, fostering collaboration, creativity, innovation, and the ability to perform under pressure. Through training and competition, teams challenge each other to raise the bar on the possible.

To recall, this is the 2nd time students are representing UFAZ at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.