{"id":296622,"date":"2025-10-30T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296622"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:47:55","slug":"vcsu-attend-digi-key-collegiate-computing-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296622","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Attends Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Comp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsu-digikey2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsu-digikey2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsu-digikey2025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsu-digikey2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vcsu-digikey2025-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Valley City ND (VCSU) &#8211; Valley City State University students Conner Bowling, Aaron Cutshall, and Jacoby Hunt, along with their advisors Dr. Yang Du and Dr. Xin Wang, recently represented VCSU at the Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition (DKC\u00b3) held Oct. 16\u201317 in Thief River Falls, Minn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DKC\u00b3, hosted annually at Digi-Key headquarters since 2000, brings together top computing students from across the Upper Midwest. This year\u2019s competition featured twenty-six teams from fourteen universities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Participants were challenged to solve twenty-five logical problems, fifteen short coding problems, and four long coding problems\u2014all within a demanding four-hour timeframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VCSU team embraced the opportunity to sharpen their problem-solving and programming skills in a competitive, real-world setting. Through teamwork and determination, they gained valuable experience and strategies to enhance their future studies and careers in computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the VCSU team for proudly representing the university and demonstrating their commitment to innovation and collaboration in computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City ND (VCSU) &#8211; Valley City State University students Conner Bowling, Aaron Cutshall, and Jacoby Hunt, along with their advisors Dr. Yang Du and Dr. Xin Wang, recently represented VCSU at the Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition (DKC\u00b3) held Oct. 16\u201317 in Thief River Falls, Minn. DKC\u00b3, hosted annually at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":296624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296626,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296622\/revisions\/296626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}