Second-year Maties student Ralf Kistner was one of only 2 people from South Africa to qualify for the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) on-site finals of the 2008 Google Code Jam, held at Google’s offices in Switzerland. Ralf, who is a past IOI medal-winner, studies B.Eng. (Electric and Electronic with Computer Science) and has been in the team representing Stellenbosch University at the Standard Bank IT Challenge twice before. Other people from Stellenbosch’s computer science division managed to qualify for the second round. These included lecturers Steve Kroon and Jaco Geldenhuys, masters student Eugene Smal and honours student Leendert Botha.