A team of Stanford programmers took home a silver medal on April 9 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest in Alberta, Canada.

The Stanford programming team came in seventh place overall in the contest, which included teams from peer institutions such as MIT as well as teams from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the South Pacific. The Russian team from the St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics took home the first place gold medal.

Winners were selected based on which teams could solve eleven complex programming problems in the shortest amount of time.