A team of Hong Kong students excelled in an international computer science competition, coming in 11th.
The University of Science and Technology team beat all other Asian university teams, and was a 'keyboard stroke' away from reaching the top five.
More than 1,000 colleges and universities worldwide competed in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, with only 43 making it to the finals in Philadelphia.
The University of Science and Technology was the only local university to make it through to the finals.
The contest required teams solving eight computer science problems covering artificial intelligence, computer graphics, robot planning, networking and game simulation.
All finalists were crammed into a single competition hall and whenever a team solved a problem, a balloon was hung above their monitor.