I wish that this were not the case, but I suppose folks do what they have to do. I certainly applaud the department s effort to slot students into the proper math class based on the student s future plans and their current state of math preparation. Such efforts will tend to narrow the wide range of readiness and hopefully result in a higher success rate in the basic classes. The regional programming contest is held annually in the fall with the Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in the spring. This year Missouri Western State College was one of seven host sites for the fall regional contest.
Teams consist of two to three undergraduate students.
Teams are given five hours to solve six programming scenarios. Problems are considered solved when they produce output that is correct in accordance with the problem statements. The teams solve as many problems as they can in the allotted time with the winner being the team that produces the largest number of correct solutions. This is the sixth year that a team from MWSC earned first-place honors at the local site. In the wider regional competition, the MWSC team of Cauthon and Miller finished sixteenth in a field of one hundred teams.