MSUM Computer Science Team Wins DigiKey Collegiate Computing Competition for Second Consecutive Year
For the second consecutive year, a team from MSUM’s Computer Science program has taken first place in the DigiKey Collegiate Computing Competition in Thief River Falls. Hosted by DigiKey, the competition on Friday, October 16, brought together computing students from regional colleges for two programming sessions and a word-problem session that test their programming and problem-solving skills.
The winning team, “Large AI Datacenter,” included Computer Science majors Isaac Bergerson, Max Sheridan, and Noble Ahrens (in left to right order in photo) and was coached by CSIS professor Ronni Kurtzhals. Each student received a prize valued at $300, and the team earned $5,000 for the CSIS department. The department will use the award to support the MSUM ACM Club and its campus activities. DigiKey also awards the first-place team’s department its Bronze Traveling Trophy.
The victory marks MSUM’s second consecutive first-place finish in the competition.