A University of Minnesota Morris computer science team took third in the Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition (DKC³), held Oct. 19 at Digi-Key headquarters in Thief River Falls.
The Tower of Babel team of Tristan Kalvoda, Jaydon Stanislowski, and John Walbran, was tied for third at the end of the competition, but won the tie-breaker. The prize included a $100 gift card for each student and $1,000 for the computer science discipline at UMN Morris.
A total of 26 teams from 13 colleges participated in the competition, which includes three main events—two programming sessions and one word problem session. Competitors must be of junior or senior undergraduate level majoring in computer science or related field. Students must be majoring in the department their team represents and cannot compete in DKC³ more than two times.
Since 2003, UMN Morris has had 17 teams place in the top three, and is tied with North Dakota State University for most top-three placements since the competition began in 2000.
