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Many participants were present in this event coming from different places. About 13 participants participated in this event and they all deserved to be awarded with the first place but just one participant was the one who won all. ACM club wants to thank all the contestants, in particular those students who came from Essex County College and of course those students who came to participate to represent Kean University. As soon as participants came to the event they were meeting together in the study room lab located in Henning Hall building room 221. Moreover, they needed to sign a stamp with their name and location where they came from and place it over the left part of their chest. Signing this paper, ACM club made sure with this that every single participant was representing his/her respective colleges. Event thought we asked them to sign the stamp; they already came with their stamp place over their t-shirt or shirt. After that, we invited them to take a hot coffee and some donuts so; they might get a little bit loose for the event and get their cold and wet body ready for the beginning of the show.

After contestants had loosed their body with the hot coffee and donuts they felt ready to start the competition. They were happy and full of joy. They really wanted to compete in this event. At 10:20 Dr. Wittenberg, the chairman of computer science department started the set up section. In this section, he explained to the participants what kind of tools they needed to use for creation compiling and running their programs. About 40 minutes after this segment end, at 11:00 am, the participants started the warm up section. This section had as a main goal to become familiar all the participants with the software. They had to create two programs and they had to run them. In that way, we made sure that the contestant knew how to use the software and became familiar with it. Right after that segment, we stopped playing with the computers for a while and we took a break. During this break, we ate some food and fooled around for about one hour and twenty minutes with our classmates. At 12:30, was the real time for the participants and for the judges to get serious about the programming contest. Judges began to hand in the programs to the contestants in a clean and nice paper. This paper contained nine programs and the contestant who resolved the most problems of all will win the first place. Contestants had four hours available to complete this challenge. This challenge was not more than a challenge for everybody but it was a challenge for the organizers who really fight all way long until they accomplished successfully this task. Three hours late the decision was in hand of the judges and they came out from their offices with the results of the programming contest. They announced the winners and everybody got excited even though we knew that there were only three winners; one who were able to hold the biggest award, the other who was able to remain between the best in the competition and the last one who was accredited with the last award. The first place was for name of the person who was awarded with name of the price, the second place was for name of the person who was awarded with name of the price and third place and last place was for name of the person who was awarded with name of the price.

In a journey crammed of rain, food and packed of positive ideas, the participants and the judges of the programming contest came out with the best result ever accomplished in an event of such nature. The rainy day may destroy interrupted severely the celebration of this contest but the faith and the fruit of the faith put into the organizer was what helped us out to be successful in this extraordinary event. Now, ACM club expresses its gratitude to all the professor of computer science departments who really supported us to celebrate this fabulous pastime, specially Dr. Morreal, Chang, Wittenberg, Lipson, hapner, and TSE.

The ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Contest for the New York Region took place on Sunday, October 29, 2006 at Nassau Community College, Garden City NY. Many universities from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut participated on this event. Among of the universities that competed on Sunday, October 29, 2006 were Cornell University, NYU, Columbia, SUNY Stony Brook, Rutgers, Princeton, Kean University and many others.
Kean University, as in previous years, participated on “The Battle of the Brains” and was represented by three teams. Kean 1 participants were senior Cesar Rojas and graduate student Guang Zheng. Kean 2 team members consisted of seniors Ronald Rojas, Felipe Buenano and Carlos Bravo, while Kean 3 was formed with senior Julio Rodriguez and sophomore Frank Kendall. They were all accompanied by Professor Lee Wittenberg and coach Kung-Kuen Tse.

Sunday, October 29 was a long day for the Kean University contestants. Kean University teams drove for two hours to get to Nassau Community College. Registration started from 9 am to 11 am, and it was followed by an hour practice session. Contestants had the chance to familiarize themselves with the system and solve a couple of programming problems.
After the practice session, the real contest began at 12 noon and it ran until 5 pm. Contestants had 5 hours to solve 9 complex programming problems. The students had the opportunity to choose among Java, C++, C or Ada to solve these problems. Kean University teams selected java as the programming language of their choice.

After 5 long hours, the contest came to conclusion and the winning team was from Rutgers University. Rutgers students were able to solve 8 problems in 675 minutes. Kean 3 was able to solve 3 problems in 231 minutes while Kean 1 solved 2 problems in 300 minutes and Kean 2 solved 2 problems in 448 minutes. From about 68 teams, Kean 2 came at 58 place, Kean 1 came at 54 place and Kean 3 came at 36 place.

All participants agreed that it was a good experience to participate in this event and they hope to do better and keep gaining experience for the upcoming contests.
Congratulations to all 3 Kean University teams, to Professor Lee Wittenberg, and the greatest coach ever Kung-Kuen Tse.