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Celeste Anderson in the Davis Centre
First-year Waterloo Computer Science student Celeste Anderson added another accolade to her glowing resume of accomplishments in the world of math, computer science, and gaming by earning the ultimate title of King as the first-place winner of the popular reality-tv series, “King of the Nerds.” Competing in challenges that required mathematical skills

Earlier today, the Waterloo Black team (Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, Anton Raichuk) finished first in the University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest. The contest brought together all 22 Canadian and U.S. teams that have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held May 14 to 18 in Warsaw, Poland. Waterloo solved nine problems, beating runners-up Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Alberta finished eighth, UBC 10th and Toronto 13th.