David Zhu, grade 9, was recently announced as one of the finalists in the 2013-14 season of the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO). As one of 24 other finalists (out of more than 2,600 initial entrants), Zhu will travel to Clemson University in South Carolina for a summer training camp, during which four of the finalists will be chosen to represent the United States at the 2014 International Olympiad in Informatics.

The finalists were selected after a series of five contests, starting in November of last year, which had students tackling programming problems spanning various techniques and difficulty levels.

Congratulations and best of luck to David Zhu at the summer training camp!