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UW-Madison team heads to China for computer finals

Associated Press - November 12, 2009 6:15 AM ET

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A University of Wisconsin-Madison competitive computing team will head to China.

The three-member Wrong Answer team came in first among 201 teams at the North Central North America Regional Programming Contest finals Oct. 31 at UW-Parkside.

The team now heads to Harbin, China, for the finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest in February. One hundred teams will compete.

Teams have to answer 10 questions in computer code.

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