2017 APL Problem Solving Competition
Tasks, Materials, and other Information:
Pending proof of student status, the judges have identified the following winning entries:
Phase II - Grand Prize Winner
Kostas Blekos
Panepistimion Patron, Greece
receives a cash prize of $2,500 USD and an invitation to present his winning work at Dyalog ’17 in Denmark
Phase II - Second Place
Douglas Patz
Agile Learning Center, New York, USA
receives a cash prize of $1,250 USD
Phase II - Third Place
Zachary Taylor
Maryville High School, USA
receives a cash prize of $750 USD
Phase II – Winning Professional Entrant
Other 2017 Winners
Phase II Winners
Randomly selected from submissions that have a correct solution to any problem in any Phase II problem set:
- Armando Cruz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
- Ivan Demianchuk (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Yash Garg (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
- Arna Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
- Akarsh Ramesh Khatagalli (Visvesvaraya Technological University, India)
each receive a cash prize of $200 USD (5 awarded)
Phase I Winners
Based on the most well-written, accurate, submissions:
- Aiken Cairncross (University of Oxford, UK)
- Yu-Chi Chiang (National Central University, Taiwan)
- Anthony Cipriano (Gustav-Stresemann Gymnasium, Germany)
- Ivan Demianchuk (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Tripti Garg (NorthCap University, India)
- Arna Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
- Bertil Johnson (University of Kentucky, USA)
- Mohammed Malik (Copenhagen International School, Denmark)
- Douglas Patz (Agile Learning Center, New York, USA)
- Zachary Taylor (Maryville High School, USA)
each receive a cash prize of $100 USD (10 awarded)
CTA about the Challenge.