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Five SoC Graduate Students receive UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

Five of our own computer science graduate students have received the UGA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2024! The award recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior instructional skills while serving in the classroom or laboratory. Everyone at the School of Computing would like to congratulate Sakher Alqaaidi, Nima Darbandi, Rohan Intipalli, Ghadeer Yassin and Sixiang Zhang on their amazing work in helping professors and students through all of their classes and/or labs! 

UGAHacks9 an astounding success!

SoC students discussing code at UGAHacks9 event.

Last month, UGAHacks9 was held from February 9th-11th at the Miller Learning Center and the result was a resounding success! Around 600 students attended the event that was essentially a 48-hour programming sleepover. Students were able to join the event in various size groups and compete with each other to program the Best Overall Hack. While the main tournament was going on there were also other additions to the whole two days such as: programming workshops, video game competitions, free food available and the opportunity to meet and connect with mentors.

Excellent Outcomes for School of Computing Graduating Students in 2023

Our career center has collected and shared data for computer science and data science majors in 2023. Our students have been very successful, with job placement across top employers  like Google, Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Palantir technologies, and the Big 4 consulting firms. Equally important is the large number of students staying in Georgia fueling tech growth in the state.

 

SoC Students awarded with the Presidential Award of Excellence

Two of our own students from the School of Computing, Morgan Elizabeth Riley and Matthew Robert Jue has been selected for the Presidential Award of Excellence! This prestigious award is handed to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, heavy extracurricular involvement, and participated in service/involvement with their respective school or college. Both of these students are 2 out of 46 students who have been selected for the award; that is only 0.6% of students in all of UGA!

SoC Students win 1st and 3rd at ICPC

5 teams from UGA
On Saturday, February 24th, UGA competed in the annual International Competitive Programming Contest (ICPC), which is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world. The competition was held at the College of Charleston, one of the sites for the Big South region. The five-hour competition consists of teams of up to three members trying to solve sets of coding problems of varying difficulties.

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