On April 1st, 2023, the department of computer science at TXST hosted the 2023 TXST Texas-Mexico Invitational Programming Contest at Derrick Hall. Thirty teams attended the event to show off their coding skills. This was an international contest that featured seven teams from Mexican Universities and several teams from various universities from all over Texas. With over 80 participants, it was a record-smashing attendance.
During the event, the competing teams were given six problems to solve over a span of five hours. The problems represented a variety of algorithms, types, and difficulty levels. Three of the winning teams was able to solve all six problems while one team was able to solve 5 problems and two teams were able to solve 4 problems. Winners were announced by Dr. Hwang, Dr. Zong, and Dr. Heena from the department of computer science at Texas State University.
First Place Team – "LucianNamiEkko" from University of Texas, Dallas
Duy Vu, Phuoc Anh Kha Le and Phuoc Dinh Le
Second Place Team – "BenchPress330LB" from Texas State University
Duy Vu, Cuong Phan and Si Dinh
Third Place Team – "fishcatcatfish" from University of Texas, Austin
Colin Liu, Sherwin Amal and Zhuoli Xie
Fourth Place Team – "UTA Team 2" from University of Texas, Arlington
Ethan Debnath, Jane Wang, Aryan Mediratta, Vatsakumar Mukeshkumar (Reserve) and Samantha Oliva (Coach)
Fifth Place Team – "UTA Team 3" from University of Texas, Arlington
Tanvir Khan, Sandeep Yadav, Manpreet Singh and Samantha Oliva (Coach)
Sixth Place Team – "Transistor" from University of Texas, San Antonio
Elias Hiestand and Caroline Oliver
Seventh Place Team – "UTA Team 1" from University of Texas, Arlington
Harish Pinnimti, Lakshmi Sarikonda, Mrudula Ranganatha and Samantha Oliva (Coach)
Eight Place Team – "Lazarus" from University of Texas, San Antonio
Vatsalkumar Dholakiya
Ninth Place Team – "Lettuce Cooks" from Texas State University
Noe Soto, Landen Espinoza and Dayuan Chen
Tenth Place Team – "Uglis Bird" from Southern Methodist University
Anirudh Valluru, Vianne Guasa and Vignes Jeevanandam
This programming contest had been successfully organized for a few years before expanding from intra campus to inter campus to invite students from all over Texas and Mexico. The contest directors hope to continue growing the event in the future.