Students Place Third in ‘Battle of the Brains’

Belmont senior Cameron Behar and sophomore teammates Brandon Sharp and Kevin Crowl (team Belmont Brute Force) placed third at the 2010 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Mid-Central International Collegiate Programming Competition held Nov. 6 at Tennessee Technological University. The five-hour contest, sponsored by IBM and known as the “Battle of the Brains,” featured 22 teams representing Vanderbilt, MTSU, UT Knoxville and other area schools. Belmont’s second team, with senior Will Proffitt and juniors Cory Hughes and Trevor Hinesly, placed tenth.