Andrew, along with two other fellow students represented New Zealand as Team CIA. They claimed bronze for coming third in the Asia Pacific region at the contest. Overall, the team were ranked 11^th in the world. With only 88 finalists being chosen from over 6000 teams from regional competitions, this makes their achievement all the more outstanding.

Team CIA were named New Zealand champions at the ACM South Pacific Programming Contest in September, and from there they headed off to Tokyo Bay to represent the country at the ACM International Collegiate Programming World Finals on 15 March.

ACM’s International Collegiate Programming Contest is the world's most prestigious university competition in computing sciences and engineering. Congratulations to Andrew on this magnificant accomplishment!

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