Media are welcome to cover the 17th annual Northern Michigan University programming contest from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 9, in Jamrich Hall. It is the largest such event in the Upper Peninsula and this year's will be the biggest ever with 36 teams composed of three students each scheduled to participate. High school students are involved this year, along with teams from NMU, Michigan Tech, Lake Superior State and Bay College.

NMU’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is sponsoring the contest. The adviser and media contact is NMU professor Andrew Poe.