Today I competed in the 2009 ACCA Programming Competition (ACCA standing for Association of Colleges in the Chicagoland Area, I think). Wheaton usually fares pretty well. As a result, they have taken to only allowing one award per school.
Last year my team came in second with 5/7 problems, following the first place which was also from Wheaton. This year we took first with 7/7 and 30 minutes to spare with the other Wheaton team close behind us.
The problems were fairly easy with a few exceptions. I specifically worked on a text scrambling program and implemented a given algorithm to find Egyptian fractions. The final problem took the longest. It was a checker board and you had to count the possible paths of a checker from one end to the other. There were a few other twists, but otherwise it was a basic dynamic programming problem which we’ve done in class before.