MonticelloLive

Three students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Division of Computer Information Systems teamed to win the CIS competition at the 2008 Arkansas Collegiate Programming Contest held recently in Conway.

            Vanneisha Bunn of Eudora, Freddie Gibson of Winchester, and Michael Howard of Linden, Texas won first place in the COBOL programming competition and first place overall in the computer information systems section of the competition. The team set a new standard for COBOL programming by completing the first problem in 22 minutes.

            Bunn and Howard are CIS majors while Gibson is a double major in CIS and spatial information systems. The team was coached by Lori Selby, associate professor of CIS.

            The competition, which is sponsored by the TresNet Division of Acxiom Corporation, is divided into two sections – computer information systems and computer science. Students competing in the CIS section may choose to program in COBOL, Java, or C++.