On May 12th, the 2024 China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) National Invitational Contest was held at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. SCMU students achieved remarkable results, winning one gold, one silver, and one bronze medal. The CCPC Zhengzhou Invitational Contest attracted 442 teams from over 150 universities, including Beijing Institute of Technology, Shandong University, Tongji University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Hangzhou Dianzi University, with over 1,300 students participating.

After five hours of intense competition, SCMU’s three representative teams stood out from the 424 valid participating teams, achieving an impressive 100% medal rate. The award-winning teams all came from the “ICPC Innovation Lab” of the School of Computer Science. The gold medal team, guided by Instructor Liu Weiping, consisted of Xing Shenghui, Liu Shisheng, and Xiao Yuhao. The silver medal team, led by Instructor Hou Rui, included Fang Ke, Lian Yubo, and Wu Jiaming. The bronze medal team, coached by Instructor Li Zuozhu, comprised Lin Jialu, Li Zi’an, and Yin Zi’ang.

Group Photo of the Gold Medal Winning Team.

Group Photo of the Silver Medal Winning Team.

Group Photo of the Bronze Medal Winning Team.

The China Collegiate Programming Contest, organized by the CCPC Organizing Committee, aims to encourage college students to flexibly apply computer knowledge and skills to solve practical problems, effectively enhancing their abilities in algorithm design, logical reasoning, mathematical modeling, programming implementation, and computer systems. It cultivates team collaboration, a spirit of challenge, and innovation, nurturing and selecting a large number of high-quality information technology professionals with excellent comprehensive abilities and a balanced structure.

SCMU has always placed great emphasis on programming contests. The Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship organizes regular school-level programming contests each year to select outstanding seed contestants, who then receive focused training from the coaching team of the “ICPC Innovation Lab” in the School of Computer Science. Since its establishment in 2009, the lab has been dedicated to guiding and training students to participate in innovative science and technology activities for college students, such as computer programming, algorithm design, and others. It uses competitions like the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Regional, the China Collegiate Programming Contest, the Baidu Star Programming Contest, the China Collegiate Computer Contest Team Programming Contest, the “Lanqiao Cup” National Software and Information Technology Professional Talent Competition, and the RoboCup Coding Skills Competition as platforms to explore practice-based talent cultivation models.

Edited by Liu Qiong, reviewed by Lei Changsheng, May 16, 2024