The University of Waterloo's Canadian Computing Competition was held last Tuesday, March 3rd, and USS students fared extremely well.  This is the third year of the competition, and this is the best year so far for USS.  18 students in total wrote the competition, which involves creating 5 computer programs to solve problems with varying levels of difficulty.  The highest possible score is 75 points, and anyone who scores over 30 has their results sent to the University.  For the first time ever, USS had three students, Matt Bodkin, Jeremy Eng, and Daniel Wigdor, receive scores of 40 or higher.  While it's too early to know how USS faired against other schools, it's safe to say that our top scorers will rank highly.  "It was much harder than last year", Jason Wilson, another contestant noted, "those top scores should rank pretty high nationally."  USS programers have Richard Watson, the head of Computer Science at USS, to thank for their excellent scores.  Mr. Watson's computer science classes at the grade 11 and 12 levels cover topics normally reserved for university level courses.

Contestants from all grades write the same competition, and while Daniel and Jeremy are OAC students, Matt Bodkin will have another chance next year, when he'll be all the more experienced.  USS looks to be very well positioned for the future.  Congratulations to all those who wrote the contest, and made this year the best we've had so far.