NASA Space Apps Challenge was held this year on 29th and 30th of April 2017 also in Koper. It is the world's largest hekaton with the theme "Earth in the universe". 25,000 participants from 69 countries participated in one of the 187 locations to solve one of the five challenges prepared by NASA. 19 participants gathered in Koper and have registered 6 projects. The winner was Oliver Glavina, a postgraduate student of computer science at UP FAMNIT.

The 1st round of UPM (UPM 2017) was held on Thursday, 20th of April 2017, in Ljubljana, Maribor and Koper. The total 166 competitors in 58 teams participated.

A trial round of the University programming marathon was held on Friday, 7. 4. 2017. The competition started at 16h and lasted 3 hours.

Central European regional contest ACM ICPC CERC 2016 was held from 18 to 20 November 2016 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. Srednjeevropska regija je ena izmed najtežjih na svetu. The Central European region is one of the toughest in the world. Competitors were given 5 hours to solve 12 tasks, some of which were extremely demanding. The results can be found at http://cerc.hsin.hr/index.php?page=results. The competition was attended by 67 teams from 28 universities from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. UP FAMNIT team as the second Slovenian team accomplished 30th place: University of Primorska (Marko Palangetić Daniel Silađi, Anton Uramer) 4 rescued tasks.

The third round of the University programming marathon (UPM) took place on Thursday, 06/10/2016, in Maribor, Koper and Ljubljana. Participation in Koper was severely curtailed. Nonetheless, the participants started seriously, but not enough to put together a good solution to the problems prepared.

Second round of University Programming Marathon competition took place on Thursday, 05th of May 2016.

From 13 to 15 November 2015 the team of FAMNIT students (Vladan Jovicic, Marko Palangetič and Daniel Siladji) participated at the Central Europe  Regional Contest (CERC ‘15) in […]

The finals of the University programming marathon 2015 took place in Maribor on 10th of October. Teams were competing for the Champion title at each individual university in […]

The 3rd round of the University Programming Marathon competition took place on Thursday, 1 October 2015. Four groups from UP FAMNIT have also competed. Team O (2 ^ […]

Tanja Štular and Anja Rudeš from UP FAMNIT and Tamara Lah from UP FTŠ Turistica have won among the seven finalists on the local Imagine Cup 2015 competition […]