Husky Game Development (HGD) Enterprise competed against twenty other Enterprises at the Michigan Tech Design Expo 2014 and won 3rd place. At Expo, HGD members demonstrated the mobile and desktop games that students have developed over the course of the school year. Faculty, professionals, and alumni judged each enterprise based on the clarity of their . . .
On Friday April 18th at the 20th Annual Student Leadership Awards, Abhilash Kantamneni (Computer Science, Ph.D. Student) won an award for Exceptional Community Service Project. The honor came from his leadership in bringing together community stakeholders to participate in the Georgetown University Energy Prize, a competition to award $5 million dollars for communities to innovate . . .
PI Scott Kuhl (CS) and Co-PIs Aleksandr Sergeyev and A. Nasser Alaraje (SoT) have received $113,310 for “PLC Education through Simulation and Games from Bay de Noc Community College.” This is the first year of a three-year project totaling $246,173.
Eight teams from Michigan Technological University competed in the 15th Annual NMU Programming Contest in Marquette on March 29, 2014. The team of Brandon Gafford, Taylor Scanlon and Xin Zhang placed first in the competition. In second place was the team of Adam Funkenbusch and Stuart Larsen. Additionally, Michigan Tech teams placed, 4th, 5th, 6th . . .
The Michigan Technological University team of math major Ryan McNamara and computer science majors Eric Rinkus and Thomas Holmes took their programming skills to Chicago on March 26 and finished 10th out of 21 in the North American Invitational Programming Contest. They now move on to the world finals in Russia in June. by Dennis . . .
A team of Michigan Tech undergraduates (Computer science students Tom Holmes and Eric Rinkus and math major Ryan McNamara) have earned the right to go to Russia to compete in the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest next June, by finishing fifth in the North Central regional qualifying contest. Holmes, Rinkus and McNamara . . .