The Fall University Programming Contest (UPC), was held on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at the College of IT between 11am-3pm. We have invited teams from Abu Dhabi University (ADU) – Al Ain campus and Al Ain University (AAU).

The contest provided an excellent opportunity for students to show their problem solving and programming skills. The contest also aims at preparing our students for similar national and international competitions. This year we had a very successful contest. 23 teams (15 female teams, 8 male teams – total 60 students) participated in the contest. This is the largest participation so far in any UPC. We accommodated the students in three labs; the contest software was PC^2, and development platforms were Netbeans (Java) and DevCPP(C/C++). The majority of participating students were from our college but we had students from other colleges. We had 4 teams from AAU, and the remaining teams were from UAE University.

Each team was made up of a maximum of three students. The contest lasted for 4 hours. This time the contest was very exciting, and competition were very tough. The students competed against each other in this friendly educational contest. The contestants were given 9 problems to solve.  The first team solved 8 out of the 9 problems. The second team solved 6 out of the 9 problems. The third team solved 4 out of the 9 problems.So four teams solved 2 problems, two teams solved 1 problems, and the remaining teams did not solve any problem. In total, 6 teams solved at least one problem. Winners of Fall University Programming Contest 2019 are as follows:

Rank	Student Name	ID	Problems Solved	Time
1	Youssef Hamed Sharaf	201731327	8	991
	Daniel Tsegay	201640082
	Nahom Demoz	201850211
2	Mariam Ali AL Marzooqi	201708582	6	1059
	Mariam Alghfeli	201712533
	Jawaher Alghfeli	201703257
3	Aysha Mohammed Alqemzi	201803049	4	393
	Sara Khaled Alshamsi	201801167
	Mahra Ali Alneyadi	201706752