We’re having our last practice session tonight before the Pacific Northwest Regional competition happening this weekend. Our last few practices have not run as smoothly as I had hoped. After our moderate success in the ACPC competition a few weeks ago (see October 18th post), I had been hoping to try out some new team strategy ideas. However, students have been ill or have had other commitments so it’s been difficult to have practices with everyone present.
Tonight I’m having the students work on the problems from last weekend’s Rocky Mountain Regional. The University of Alberta won this event by solving 7 of 9 and the University of Arizona was second with 5 problems solved. I’m hoping in the 2.5 to 3 hour practice we have tonight that the guys are able to solve 5 problems.
We leave Friday afternoon for Vancouver and the competition starts at noon (PST) on Saturday at UBC. I’ll be tweeting about the competition as it happens.
