Category: Competition

Computer-Savvy High Schoolers Compete at the Spring’19 Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 6th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2019 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 […]

HackUTD’19: A 24-Hour Marathon of Student Innovation, Creativity, Learning, and Fun This past February, HackUTD, a 24-hour annual hackathon, organized by UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM in partnership with the Major League Hacking (MLH) Organization, was held in UT Dallas’s newest building, Engineering & Computer Science West. HackUTD ’19 was organized under the guidance […]

The term “hacker” usually conjures up an image of a nefarious computer whiz secretively working in a dark room. But at Hacks for Humanity at The University of Texas at Dallas in October, that notion couldn’t have been further from the truth. Dozens of computer experts and nonexperts joined Arizona State University in tying technical […]

Computer Science Teams Win Big at the 12th Annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition (BIC) Student teams from The University of Texas at Dallas showed recently that winning a business pitch competition — or launching a successful business, for that matter — requires having not just a great idea but also the preparation, passion and […]

Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition Hosts Largest Contest in its History This October, the biannual Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition held one of the biggest competitions in its decade-long history. The contest drew in more 135 teams comprising more than 450 high school students from all over North Texas, […]

HackUTD’18 Inspires Student Creativity and Innovation for a Fourth Year Last spring, more than 550 college students from all over Texas formed teams for HackUTD’18, a 24-hour Hackathon organized and run by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) in partnership with Major League Hacking. Students were challenged to use […]

UT Dallas CS Students Win Smart Cities Competition Using AI to Address School Shootings Research professor Marjorie Zielke PhD’07 and a company founded by computer science senior Ashlesha Nesarikar have both won the city of Richardson’s Smart Gigabit Communities development challenge. The challenge is part of US Ignite’s encouragement for participating cities to create Smart City applications addressing […]

400 High Schoolers Compete at this Spring’s Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2018 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 7th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2018 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 teams comprising […]

Company Co-Founded by CS Student Invited to Participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji –  Co-founder of augmented reality platform for tourist attractions attended program to help develop young entrepreneurs A UT Dallas student startup was selected to participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute, a program Red Bull […]

UT Dallas Team Wins Grand Prize at Texas A&M Hackathon Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji – A UTD team was declared the grand prize winner at TAMUHack 2018, the Texas A&M annual hackathon, for developing an app utilizing social media for first responders. The team also won the “Best Hack for Social Good,” sponsored by […]