The traditional CS programming contest was held for the twelfth time in a row on Wednesday, July 5, 2017, sponsored by Google.

A record participation of 19 teams (including one guest team from the University of Haifa) took part in the contest.

Final standings for the competition:

1st place - Team “O(42)” (6 problems solved):
   - Volodymyr (Vova) Polosukhin
   - Artem Shtefan
   - Galia Kleiman
2nd place -Team “17Katzen” (6 problems solved):
   - Dean Leitersdorf
   - Yuval Pnueli
   - Itay Zuker
3rd place - Team “Blue Screen of Death” (4 problems solved):
   - Rami Masalha
   - Marwa Mouallem
   - Benaya Koren

The students are all graduates of the Competitive Programming workshop, directed by Nofar Carmeli, Eden Saig, Aviram Magen and Yufei Zheng, and the contest is organized and supervised by Prof. Gill Barequet. The winning team will represent the faculty and the Technion in the prestigious programming contest ACM/ICPC, to be held in Paris in November 2017.

Thanks to all participants and organizers, to Google for the support, congratulations to the winning teams and good luck in Paris!

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