Students of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) have successfully brought home plenty awards in the Bukalapak Programming Contest Season 3 that last at University Club UGM on 4 June 2016. In the competition organised by Bukalapak.com, UGM won from the first to the fifth award titles.
All five students of Computer science: Erwin Eko Wahyudi, Rian Adam R, Lantang Satriatama, M Rizki Ramadhan, and Sidiq Tri Pratikto, became winners from first to fifth places.
Erwin said there were 87 participants joining the competition from universities in Yogyakarta and Central Java, including from Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Universitas Jendral Soedirman, and Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana.
“We competed strongly to finish the programming tests given by the event committee,” he said on Monday (6/6) at Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences UGM.
There were two stages of competition, namely selection and finals. Participants had to do 3 programming test in the selection and 7 tests in the finals.
“So, we were competing to finish the tests being given to us, then we made the programme to complete those tests,” he said.
Erwin said he was happy and proud on their achievements. Hopefully, these would inspire and motivate other students to keep making achievements in many competitions and making UGM proud.