Northborough/Southborough– Four students from Algonquin Regional
High School, Jackson Brodeur, Shaun Tan, Raymond Mead and Akshay Thejaswi, demonstrated superior mathematical and computer programming skills and achieved first-place honors at the 26th Annual High School Programming Contest, held March 12 at Providence College.
The students were among 48 students from 13 high schools in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York who competed in four-person teams during the competition. Using HP desktop personal computers and two designated computer-programming languages, students wrote original programs that correctly solved complex hypothetical math problems.
