The Storyline of Our Chapter

2014

May
The ACM PSUT Student Chapter was established. We’ve announced our first interactive activity; the first Coding Marathon!
June
Team “Need for Speed” was the first Jordanian team to ever make it to the ICPC World Finals in Russia!
August
Codability initiative was first founded, where many children and highschool students got the chance to learn how to code.
November
Teams “42”, “3G”, “BetaVinci”, and “1337Skills” ranked first, second, sixth, and seventh out of 92 teams in the JCPC.

2015

May
Our second Coding Marathon along with JOI students participants who achieved the first places in JOI and were trained by our chapter students efforts.
June
We established our first Summer Coding Camp for all Jordanian students that was held at ASU.
July
Teams “AbdullaYa3onak” and “BetaVinci” have achieved the first and second places in AmmanCPC respectively.
November
Team “EarlGrey” achieved the 4th place in the ACPC and was awarded with the Silver Medal.

2016

May
Team “EarlGrey” was the second team to ever represent our club and Jordan in the ICPC world finals in Phuket, Thailand!
June
Our Chapter was the 2015/2016 ACM Excellence Award Winner for Outstanding Community Service among all ACM Student Chapters around the world!
July
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Bluwi; the supervisor of our club and our biggest sponsor; was set to leave PSUT and start a career at Princeton University.
October
Team “MasterSamurai” achieved the first place among all Jordanian teams in the IEEEXtreme 10.0 Global Programming Competition and 8th place Worldwide!
November
Team “NotGoodEnoughYet” achieved the Steadfast Programmers Award in the ACPC ranking the first among Jordanian teams.

2017

March
Our first Mini Coding Marathon, where the trainees were given a chance to enhance their coding skills and prepare for the upcoming contests.
July
More than 200 school students registered for Codability now with even more courses including problem solving, Python, Arduino and others.
August
Teams “Aurora” and “Lab104” ranked first and second in AmmanCPC respectively. Our University teams got 6 places out of the top 10!
October
Team “Aurora” achieved the first place in JCPC. Our University teams got 3 other places out of the top 10!
October
Team “Aurora” achieved the 13th place Worldwide in the IEEEXtreme 11.0 Global Programming Competition!
November
Team “Aurora” achieved the 4th place in the ACPC and became the third team to ever represent us in the ICPC World Finals held in Beijing, China!

2018

April
Our Region Champion, team “Aurora” has received the ICPC Africa and Middle East Champions Award, achieving the 58th place in the World Finals!
May
Teams “Bad” and “Kalamantina” were the gold medalists of AmmanCPC, ranking the 1st and 2nd places respectively. Team “YaRajaie2.0” got the Silver Medal, ranking 6th.
October
Teams “Kalamantina” and “Bad” have achieved the 1st and 2nd places in the JCPC respectively.
October
Breaking the records once again! Team “Aurora” has achieved the 4th place in the IEEEXtreme 12.0 Global Programming Competition!
December
We hosted our first Local Hack Day Hackathon in Amman along with the ACM JU Student Chapter in partnership with Major League Hacking where all Jordanian students and professionals were welcome to participate!

2019

March
The ACM PSUT Student Chapter's website was founded by the efforts of its members!
October
We kicked off our year with breaking worldwide records at the IEEEXtreme 13.0. Two of the top 10 places, and five of the top 100 teams were PSUT teams. - 4th Place Worldwide: Team Aurora - 6th Place Worldwide: Team Klapaucius - 22nd Place Worldwide: Team X - 61st Place Worldwide: Team PSUTPSUTPSUTPSUT - 91st Place Worldwide: Team Momentum*
November
Our teams have dominated the Jordanian Collegiate Programming Contest (JCPC). The teams have set a new record, with 4 of them being in the top 10, qualifying for the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC). - First Place: Team Aurora - Second Place: Team 3legs - Sixth Place: Team Momentum - Seventh Place: Team Good
December
Holding the first Tech-Talk with Wa'el Farhan, the director of machine learning at Mawdoo3, who gave us a great insight into the world of machine learning and more.
December
Breaking records everywhere, our teams have got the top 2 places in the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC); becoming the first teams in ACPC history to get the first and second place from the same university. - First Place: Team Aurora - Second Place: Team 3legs - 51st Place: Team Momentum

2020

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April
To liven up the Covid-19 quarantine, an online contest was held for ACM newcomers as well as beginner and intermediate ACM training students, the Stay-At-Home contest, in lieu of the usual Mini-Marathon.
July
With the Coding Marathon coming up, we held the Warm-up Contest to prepare the members and make sure everyone is ready push out their best performance.
August
The Coding Marathon VII, in its first virtual iteration! The biggest and most prestigous ICPC-style contest PSUT has to offer, in which students compete to prepare themselves for the Jordanian Collegiate Programming Contest (JCPC) and AmmanCPC.
October
Once again, team "Aurora" sets a new record and wins the 1st place in the IEEEXtreme 14.0 Global Programming Competition.
November
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2021

May
In May we did the 5th Mini Coding Marathon. It was held online due to Covid-19 restrictions. The winners were: 1st Place: Team Lizards: - Maen Obaid - Issam Abdoh 2nd Place: Team Matrix: - Abdullah Bitar - Zeina Ammourah 3rd Place: Omar Alfawareh (microwave6) 4th Place: Team Semicolon: - Laith AlKhdour - Hamza AlSaht 5th Place: Tala Ibraheem (Xx)
July
This year, like every other year, we held the 8th Coding Marathon. It was online due to the Covid quarantine. The winners were: 1st Place: Mohammad Kilani (Mohammad99!) 2nd Place: Team 3 Sigma Σ: - Ahmad Hammoudeh - Laith Saqqa - Asem Tuffaha 3rd Place: Omar Aseer (Thunder Cross Split Attack!) 4th Place: Team Shrigma: - Abdelaziz Hamdan - Omar Alshuha 5th Place: Rund Rasheed (whatever)
October
We started this year's trainings for Beginners, Skillful and Intermediate levels. And for the first time ever, we split the trainings into two sessions, A and B. In session A, we teach the theoretical part, and in B we solve questions about the topics we took in A!
November
Our first Technology-Talk theme was Career path. We had two talks under it. 1- "Know Your Tech Career". It was in collaboration with the Cyber Security Club, Data Science Club, Google Developer Student Club, and the IEEE PSUT Student Branch. 2-"Game Development in Jordan". It was given by Mr. Mustafa Sweidan, the Head of Studio at Chick Mania Entertainment.
December
We introduced a new activity, Coding Night. It is a practical session where students sit together in groups and solve different questions about the topics they took in their training, and discuss different ideas.
December
With the cooperation of the Data Science Department, we gave a Problem Solving Crash Course to Data Science students!
December
Our teams achieved spectacular results in Africa & Arab Collegiate Programming Championship ACPC 2021! 1st place: Barely Legal: -Mohammad Kilani -Abdel-aziz Hamdan -Motasem Alkayed 45th place: 7x13x19: -Asem Tuffaha -Ahmad Hammoudeh -Laith Saqqa

2022

February
Before the beginning of the new semester, we held a warm up contest for our members.
March
A great Technology Talk under the theme "Skills for Software Engineers" was given by Amer Jarrar and Mohammad Rimawi with the title "Introduction to Git and GitHub" .
April
For the first time ever, we made a Ramadan Coding Marathon. It is a marathon where we release a problem solving question every day in Ramadan, and there is a daily leaderboard for the first 10 people that solve it. It is hosted on Thabit.io and is open to all Arab competitive programmers.
May
Coding Marathon IX, the annually held problem solving ICPC style contest at PSUT was held on campus for students of all levels. The questions were written by Thabit's team!
May
We held the Mini Coding Marathon VI on campus for the first time in two years! The Mini Coding Marathon is a problem solving ICPC style contest for students who have no competitive programming experience. The questions were written my senior students.
October
In collaboration with ACM, GDSC PSUT held a Q&A panel with students who interned at Big Tech companies.
October
Teams “Welcome to A CBC” and “Ahlam el aser” have achieved the 1st and 4th places in the JCPC respectively.
October
Team “MEOWWW” achieved the 13th place Worldwide and 1st place nationally in the IEEEXtreme 16.0 Global Programming Competition!