The Caribbean is highlighted in online "preliminary" of the World Programming Competition

The Caribbean has had an outstanding participation in the online competitions preliminary to the 2012 World Programming Competition, an annual event organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), called the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC).

Since April online preparatory competitions called "Challenge", programming challenges that are worked on as a team, as "warm-up" to the world final that will be developed from Monday 14 to 18 in May at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Cuba, represented by the University of Havana, was in second place among more than one hundred teams while the Dominican Republic, a country that participates for the first time represented by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), ranked in ninth place in the preliminary online Challenge.

The Dominican team, called Tortugas del Caribe, is composed of INTEC students Carlos Toribio (Electronic Engineering), Ronald Rey (Electronic Engineering) and Dennis Castillo (Civil Engineering), trained by Carlos Joa.

The young people had an outstanding participation in November of 2011 during the Caribbean Final of the International Collegiate Programming Competition of the ACM-ICPC, held at the University of Information Sciences (UCI) of Cuba. This opened a ticket to the World Cup in Poland as one of the regional representatives.

The Preliminary Challenge ACM-ICPC the competitions are part of the preparation for the finals and promote teamwork.

More details and update in: cm.baylor.edu y icpc2012.pl