The 41stACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) Asian Regional Contest in Dalian, Shenyang, Beijing, Qingdao, and Shanghai and the 2ndChina Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) Hefei Regional Contest were recently completed. NWAFU ACM representative team grabbed 4 bronze medals and 2 merit awards, breaking the university’s historical performance. The bronze medal obtained from Dalian Contest is the first medal NWAFU has ever receive from an international regional competition and the bronze medal from Hefei Contest is the first from a domestic regional competition.

NWAFU’s College of Information Science highly focuses on cultivating students’ scientific technological contest ability and innovation capacity. By combining students’ interest with teachers’ research, the College organizes learning groups and offers professional training for the participants. In recent years, the students constantly achieve remarkable results in professional competitions such as Lanqiao National Software and Information Technology Professional Talents Competition, Oracle JAVA Computer Program Designing Competition and ACM-ICPC. The goal of high-level and professional talented person cultivating has been realized.