Recent Events
2026
Denison University 36th Programming Contest
Feb 28, Granville, OH
Two teams represented us well this year, and Wooster won first place! The competition included a dozen teams from Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Granville High School. Pictured (left-to-right): Anany Sachan, Saidamir Osimov, Dr. Heather Guarnera, Osen Mac-Iriase, Elizabeth Haar, Miles Fike, Mehdia Sadat, Hannah Venzon, and Suraj Acharya.
VR Demo at Wooster High School
Feb 24, Wooster, OH
In coordination with Wooster's Google Developer Group (WooGDG), we brought equipment from our VR lab to showcase and connect with young community members interested in computing. Pictured (left-to-right): Dr. Heather Guarnera, Faiaz Azmain, Aditi Jha
2025
ACM ICPC East Central Programing Contest
Nov 9, Youngstown, OH
Congratulations to Suraj Acharya, Leslie Osei-Anane, Hiruy Worku for representing Wooster exceptionally well at the ICPC East Central Programing Contest. At the Youngstown University site, they solved four problems and placed 12th out of 32 teams competing there. Pictured (left-to-right): Hiruy Worku, coach Dr. Sofia Visa, Leslie Osei-Anane, Suraj Acharya
National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
April 7-9, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Two groups of students presented their joint work at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2025). Laura and Akhmad presented "Can Gen AI Tools and Basic Prompting Training Enable Non-STEM Students to Complete Field-Specific Coding Tasks?". Habiba, Tasin, and Faiaz presented "Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering: Evaluating Generative Pre-trained Transformers". Pictured (left-to-right): Laura Park, Habiba Hye, Tasin Saifullah, Dr. Dan Palmer, Faiaz Azmain, Akhmad Marimov.
OWU Programming Contest
March 31, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
About a dozen teams competed, including those from OWU, Mount Vernon, and Denison. The Wooster team won first place and successfully solved 5 challenging problems during the four hour event. Pictured (left-to-right): Soobin Yang, Abhishek Manhas, Suraj Acharya, Anany Sachan, and coach Dr. Drew Guarnera.
ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium
March 1, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Leilani Torres ('25, pictured right) presents her work in collaboration with Dr. Heather Guarnera (pictured left) at the Association for Computing Machinery's 56th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE).
Denison University 35th Programming Contest
March 1, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Dr. Alex Nord advised four student teams, who won 2nd, 3rd, 8th, and 9th. Participants include (left-to-right): Alex Nord, Aditi Jha, Akhmadillo Mamirov, Serena Warner, Osen Mac-Iriase, Mastewal Berhe, Noah McDonald, Suraj Acharya, Jonathan Rueffer, Anany Sachan, Andre Ebu, Idris Nemsia
2024
Denison University 34th Programming Contest
February 24, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Dr. Drew Guarnera advised three student teams. Participants include (left-to-right): Faiaz Azmain, Suraj Acharya, Kaiya Magnuson, Tasin Saifullah, Taemour Zaidi, Habiba Hye, Abhishek Manhas, Patrick May, Soobin Yang, Jorge Daniel Quinteros
2023
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
October 29, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
Dr. Mircea Ionescu and Dr. Heather Guarnera coordinated three teams. Pictured from left-to-right: Kaiya Magnuson, Ellie Stroke, Aryan Tamrakar, Tasin Saifulla, Patrick May, Oreofe Solarin, Mircea Ionescu, Taemour Zaidi, Faiaz Azmain, Ben Van Horssen
Ohio Celebration of Women in Conference
February 24-25, Sawmill Creek Resort, Huron, OH
Heather Guarnera, Hawi Regaa, Linda Berhe, Bolanle Oladeji, Tigist Berhe, and Mae Koger (left to right) presented posters and attended a leadership workshop.
Denison University 33rd Programming Contest
February 11, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Three Wooster teams win 11th, 12th, and 13th place. Pictured from left-to-right: Oreofe Solarin, Jonathan Rueffer, Eltahir Elawad, Huy Phan, Quang Vo, Faiaz Azmain, Erick Delgado, Izzie Corley, Ethan Kramer, Aryan Tamrakar, Alex Delicer, Quoc Do
2022
OWU Programming Competition
November 5th, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Three Wooster teams enter, with one placing in the top 10 and another winning first, advised by Drew Guarnera. Pictured from left-to-right: Oreofe Solarin, Addison Walling, Aryan Tamrakar, Patrick May, Taemour Zaidi, Yasmine Fazazi, Eltahir Elawad, Erick Delgado, Izzie Corley, Alex Delicer, Luna Gal
Denison University 32nd Programming Contest
February 19, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Our two programming teams represented Wooster well at the 32nd Denison Spring Programming Contest. Out of 29 teams from Oberlin, Wittenberg, Denison, OWU, Kenyon, and Wooster, they came in 9th and 14th place. Patrick May, Eltahir Elawad, and Taemour Zaidi (left to right) formed Wooster Fighting Squirrels and solved five of eight problems. Next, Huy Kieu and Kien Le (left to right) formed Wooster Callback Cats and solved six of eight problems.
2021
Ohio Wesleyan Programming Contest
November 13th, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Heather Guarnera (coach), Bolanle Oladeji, Huy Kieu, Patrick May (left-to-right) formed Wooster Callback Cats completed 8 of 10 problems, placing in 7th place.