Google announced today that Sergio Sancho, a computer science student at the University of Buenos Aires won the Google Code Jam, Google's annual computer programming competition, which comes with a $10,000 first prize. Sancho competed against a total of 7,500 top programmers from around the world for first place.
A second place prize of $7,000 went to Po-Ru Loh, a mathematics student at Caltech.
Third prize of $5,000 was awarded to Reid Barton, a math major at MIT, and fourth place and $3,000 went to Tomasz Czajka, who is studying for a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University.
Additional cash prizes went to the other top 50 finalists, who are working or studying in the United States and in 16 other countries, from Scandinavia to central Europe to Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Google flew all finalists to its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters this week to compete in the championship round.
In 2003, Jimmy Mardell of Stockholm, Sweden, took home the grand prize.
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