The ICPC World Finals are coming to Rapid City May 20-25, and excitement is building in advance of the actual event.
The top competitors at the ICPC World Finals represent the best collegiate programmers on the planet. Each fall, about 300,000 students across six continents compete for spots on local university teams. The winning university teams progress through multi-level regional competitions with 133 teams of three advancing to the World Finals. SD Mines will have a team at the World Finals for the 7th time since 1998 – an accomplishment few schools, and no other school of comparable size, can claim. Kyle Riley, Ph.D., and chair of Mines’ math and computer science department says, “There are no ‘free’ spots at the world finals. The SD Mines team had to earn a spot just like everyone else. And we wouldn’t have it any other way.”