Team Sirca wins data programming competition

Programmers from the winning team, Sirca, receiving their trophy from Dr Sita Shah-Roth. From left are team members Amanauth Persaud, Jason Plummer and Richard Cheng-Yuen

Team Sirca yesterday emerged as the winner of the Open Data Code Sprint, which saw four teams of computer programmers coming up with a programme idea in a 24-hour period.

The four teams that participated in the event, which was hosted by the University of Guyana (UG), were: Sirca, Here for the Food, Code Stars and Banks Pacesetters Programmes. Sirca emerged as the winner, while Code Stars took the second place followed by Here for the Food in third place. The winning programme