"Caribbean tortoises" qualify for global competition in Poland
Santo Domingo. That a "turtle" decipher algorithm problems in record time is precisely the irony that the team "Turtles of the Caribbean" wanted to suggest with its name, integrated by the students Carlos Toribio (Electronic Engineering), Ronald Rey (Electronic Engineering) and Dennis Castillo (Civil Engineering), trained by Carlos Joa.
The Intecians were one of the three groups from the Dominican Republic that participated in the Caribbean Final of the International Collegiate Programming Competition of the ACM-ICPC, held on November 4 and 5 at the University of Informatics Sciences (UCI) of Havana , Cuba, where programming teams from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, PUCMM, (Capitalenos_01 team) and UNAPEC (UNAPEC_03 team) attended for the first time to represent the country.
Cuba, the host country, obtained the first three places in the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic ranked fourth between Jamaica and Costa Rica, explains Eligio Cabrera, coordinator of INTEC competitions and representative of American Computing Machinery (ACM-ICPC, for short) in English).
The Dominican team won a ticket to the World Final of the ACM-ICPC, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from the 13 to the 18 of May of 2012, because it qualified as the best team in the global ranking of Latin America of a country not represented in the 16 quotas that correspond to the Latin American Region (which includes the Caribbean).
Given the performance of the national teams in the Caribbean Finals in the UCI, for two consecutive years, from 2012 the country will be a site separate from Cuba. The Dominican teams, from any university, plus those from Puerto Rico, Haiti and other Caribbean countries that adhere and qualify for the Caribbean Final will not have to travel to Cuba to compete, which implies greater possibilities of going to a final world competition of programming and a space to promote programming in the country, explains Cabrera.
To reinforce its teams, INTEC, PUCMM, UNAPEC and ITLA will hold the first training camp in the 2012 summer so that those interested, regardless of their academic careers, learn to compete in ACM-ICPC style competitions.
The irony of the name chosen by the team of intecianos was also in honor of the "mascots" of the coffee shop "El Panalito" of INTEC, an hicotea and two turtles.
National programming competences
For three years, INTEC has been periodically carrying out the Programming Competences in coordination with the regional competencies of the American Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC). In the summer of this year the ninth competition was held, where the teams that went to Cuba qualified.