The School of Computing is hosting a special get together to welcome the team fromQueen's School of Computing, who won first place in the international Chengdu80 FinTech Hackathon, held at theSouthwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China!
Computing and Queen's faculty and staff will meet with the team over an informal lunch social to discuss their success and next steps.
Xiaomin Cheng,Adam Clarkes, Chloe Houvardas, Vinicius Porfirio Purgato, Nolan Ling, and AmrZaki and their team the "Data Queens" travelled 30+ hours fromKingston to Chengdu to attend the competition, joined by Queen's Computinginstructors Wendy Powley and Dr. Yuanzhu Chen.
"DataQueens" was among the 8 invited teams of students from Canada, UnitedStates, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China Mainland, representingover 20 countries.