FICCT Community
ACM-ICPC: competitive programming as a school
Competitive programming was one of the first things FICCT Community organized around: taking teams of students to the ACM-ICPC representing Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno.
The reason
Why we took teams to compete
Why competitive programming
It is one of the areas that contributes the most to building programming logic. I competed in the ACM-ICPC myself and it left me a huge amount of learning — that is why I pushed community members to compete.
What it is actually for
Many people ask whether it helps at all. It does: it sharpens your programming logic, it makes you prove things to yourself, and it trains you to solve real problems with code under pressure.
Talent, not trophies
Through FICCT Community the goal was that members would develop these skills, learn, meet people and get opportunities. The competition was the excuse; the development of talent was the point.
Record
The UAGRM delegation
We competed with several teams. The group photo gathers every competitor from Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, and it was one of the community's first group activities.
Group photo of all UAGRM competitors at the ACM-ICPC regional event 
A FICCT Community team at their workstation during the contest 
Teams receiving their participation certificates on stage 
Another team on stage with their certificates at the closing ceremony 
Closing ceremony of the contest with the audience recording the moment
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