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A trio of computer science students from the University of Waterloo were among the top programmers from 128 universities across six continents invited to battle it out in Rapid City, South Dakota on May 24, 2017 at the 41^st Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.

Danny Yaroslavski, a graduate from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (2014) was named to the Forbes "30 under 30: Education" list, for his work in founding the company Lightbot. Lightbot teaches children ages four and up how to code though gaming. 

On September 22, 2014 the Office of the President honoured the 189 2013-14 Warrior Academic All-Canadians including three students belonging to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Academic All-Canadians are students who have maintained an average of 80% and higher while competing for an interuniversity sport. The University of Waterloo has one of the highest percentages of academic all-Canadian student-athletes in the country each year.

The University of Waterloo and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science will host the fourth annual Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing this weekend.

The conference brings together female professionals from across the province, students and faculty who are interested in, or working in, computing. The conference, on November 8 and 9 helps generate excitement about the field while providing attendees with opportunities for networking, sharing and mentoring.

With notes from BetaKit

Tian Qi (Dinah) Shi of Mississauga was awarded one of three BlackBerry scholarships and will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science pursing a degree in software engineering programs this term. Shi joins Anastasia Santasheva of Maple, ON, a new Waterloo Engineering systems design engineering student, and Xiao Yan (Cheyenne) Guo of Toronto who joins the Faculty of Mathematics.
 

Waterloo ranked at 43 in the world for Engineering and amongst the top 200 universities overall globally.