Three EE students, namely TANG Tsz Wan (INFE, 2013 entering major), CHAN Wai San (INFE, 2012 entering major) and CHAN Ka Yi (INFE, 2012 entering major), formed a team and won the Third Prize in the 13th Guangdong Province Collegiate Programming Contest which was held in May 2015 and was jointly organized by Computer Academy of Guangdong and Sun Yat-sen University. The team has been trained by Dr Taejoon Kim, Assistant Professor of EE, on programming skills throughout the academic year 2014/15.
This year, totally 221 teams participated in which 6 teams were from CityU, 195 teams were from Colleges or Universities in Guangdong Province and 20 teams were from National tertiary institutions. Each team had to solve a total of 12 programming problems in 5 hours using programming language C, C++ or Java. Teams were ranked according to the most problems solved by least total time.