UCT finishes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th in Standard Bank IT Challenge
UCT programming teams swept the boards at the recent inter-university Standard Bank CIB IT Challenge 2014. Only one non-UCT team, from North-West University, managed to make it into the top 6 positions.
The winning team – Ashraf Moolla, Dylan Nelson and Robert Spencer – will represent UCT at the finals next semester. In second position were Kieren Davies, Yaseen Hamdulay, Rosy Sanby and Sean Wentzel; while Shaylan Lalloo teaming up with Reneshan and Darien Naidoo, came 3rd. Fourth place was also taken by a UCT team comprising Aaron Krishna, Guy Paterson-Jones, Herman Pienaar and Nicola Vermeulen, while Calvin Brizzi, Bryce Billing and Jethro Muller placed 6th among over 60 participating teams from 11 universities