From July 19 to 20, the 46th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia-East Continent Final was held in Xi'an. Five teams from Beihang University have won three gold and two bronze medals, marking the best performances of Beihang in ICPC over the past three years.

The final contest, organized by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shaanxi Computer Education Society, attracted 363 teams from 164 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Zhejiang University.

For this year's contest, Beihang assigned 12 teams (3 members per team) from 10 schools including the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the School of Software, ShenYuan Honors College, etc. Our teams participated in all six regionals and the final contest, taking a third place with 14 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze medals in total.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest is the world’s largest top-level programming competition for college students with the largest number of participants each year. Known as the “Olympic Games” in IT industry, the contest allows students to fully demonstrate their ability to analyze and solve problems with computers. The competition is held once a year.