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Contest date: Friday March 6, 2009

This is a challenging and fun opportunity for High School students to improve their Java programming skills. The contest will encourage the development of creative problem solving and communication skills as students work with their teammates to generate solutions to programming problems.

Who can participate?

High school students in grades 10, 11 and 12 are invited to enter. Students will work in four-person teams. Each school may enter up to two teams (a third team may be accepted if space allows). The contest is limited to the first 30 teams that register prior to February 6, 2009. Third teams from a school will be accepted after the deadline if space allows.

What is the contest?

The contest will be held in the Computer Lab in the Engineering Building at VCU. Teams will be given problems to solve using Java and will have three hours to implement solutions. Solutions will be judged for correctness and speed of solving. Complete contest specifications and rules can be viewed by clicking here.

AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS

The First Place winning team will be awarded a VCU Computer Science scholarship for $2000 per year (for each student) up to four years (conditioned on maintaining an overall minimum GPA of 3.2), the Second $1500, and the third $1000.

Registration Information

Entries and fees must be received by February 6, 2009. The registration form is available by clicking here.

The entry fee is $100.00 per team. This includes one parking pass per team. All participants will receive lunch and a commemorative t-shirt. Checks should be made payable to VCU and sent to Dr. Dan Resler, Dept. of Computer Science, Box 843019, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-3019.