Aguascalientes, Ags., November 24, 2022.- Engineering students represent Panamericana in the world's most important competition in the area of programming.
ICPC Programming Contest
The ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) is the most important programming contest in the world where only the best 120 universities attend and where more than 50,000 students participate each year. In order to reach the world championship, the university team had to overcome regional and national competitions and fight for its qualification at the Latin American level.
The students of Artificial Intelligence Engineering: Héctor Fernando Ricárdez Lara, Juan Marquina Cancino, Gustavo Meza García, 3rd, 7th and specialty, respectively, signed one of the best participations of our country in the history of the ICPC.
Great success has been this feat achieved by the engineering students, since reaching this confrontation is a great challenge in itself, which requires a lot of time, effort and ingenuity just to prepare and arrive with a positive mentality to such an event.
This dispute took place in twelve hours of our time zone. Bangladesh was, nothing more and nothing less, the venue of this world challenge. Our students traveled to this South Asian country to showcase our institution and our country at the top of the world of engineering experts.
"The challenge is to prepare, and this requires a lot of time," mentions Gustavo Meza García, a student from the Aguascalientes campus, who represented us in the tournament. "Just qualifying is a big deal; it leaves aside the tournament itself. We had to train hard to qualify for the world cup and compete in it."
Panamericana outstanding
The School of Engineering, outstanding for being one of the best nationally, has continuously strived to put the name of Panamericana on the radar of prestigious institutions around the world and to position itself as one that strives for continuous improvement and constant increase in the reputation of its students.
"There are many engineering students from our university who are currently winning competitions and awards around the world and they don't get the attention they should," says Mercedes Urzúa González, Director of the School of Engineering at the Aguascalientes campus. "They excel in their disciplines and we have to show them off". The dedication with which the Director promotes her school and her students is very powerful and shows the energy she transmits to the people under her authority.
About the pressure in the joust, Gustavo comments that during the first hour the nerves were very intense, "but when the first problem arose the tension was over and we could concentrate only on how to solve the setbacks that came up".
When asked what the contest leaves him as a learning experience, the student comments that, although he can no longer participate due to the age limit, he would like to "help prepare the next ones. So that next year we can do even better than we did this year."
With great honor and great responsibility, this team traveled and solved every type of problem that manifested itself. The students carried the great commitment of carrying the name of their university on their shoulders; and with great authority they left our reputation high.
