On July 18, members of Sun microsystems' NJ/NY Black Employee Network (BEN) hosted their second site visit from the NJ Governor's School of Engineering and Technology Program in the Somerset, New Jersey office. The program is focused on the fields of engineering, information technology and technology, and works with high school students that are generally in the top 2% of their class.

Approximately 30 Sun volunteers came together to host this interactive day of learning for 90 students.  Students had the unique opportunity to hear from various Sun employees on issues ranging from StarOffice, Network.com, Eco-Repsonsibility, and future career paths available to the students.

At the end of the day, the students were each challenged to enter a Network.com contest in which participants were to provide an automated solution to a problem that runs on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Submissions were due by August 31, at which time the judges ran each submission, and the finalists to solve the problem with the least amount of CPU-time and the least amount of wall-clock time won an 80GB ipod.

Sun Microsystems thanks all participants for their submissions, and is excited to announce the winners of the “Network.Com Contest for 2007 Governor's School of Engineering & Technology Program” contest. 

Five of the total submissions computed the correct result in approximately the same amount of time, earning a five-way tie for “Category A: A valid solution computed with the least amount of CPU time consumed”.

The five first place winners are (in alphabetical order by last name):

  • Christopher Camastra

  • Phillip DiSanto

  • Anthony Hsu

  • Anthony Leontiev

  • David Vetrano

Congratulations to all the winners!

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