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UAB Annual High School Programming Contest
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UAB
High
School
Programming
Contest |
The UAB High School Programming Contest (HSPC) brings talented students from high
schools throughout Alabama to the UAB campus to participate in an organized competition. Students individually compete to demonstrate their
programming skills and problem solving abilities by attempting to solve six programming problems within a three hour period.
Schools that have more than three contestants are also eligible for team awards.
Submission System: A video demonstration of the new
submission system is available
here. The next contest will take place Saturday,
May 12, 2007 from 10:30am-4:45pm in Campbell Hall at UAB Parking information and directions to the
CIS Department
can be found here.
NEW!
The
Alice
Film Festival (AFF) is a co-located event where students submit movies
written in Alice. Prior to
the HSPC Awards ceremony, movies from the AFF will be shown. Awards will be
given out at the film festival in several categories. More information about the
AFF is available
here.
NEW!
The CIS Department will be offering a 5-week summer camp for high school and
middle school students. If you live in the Birmingham area and are interested in
the camps, more information is available
here.
General Information
Registration Information
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Registration for this event is limited to the first 40 students to
respond. A waitlist will be maintained in case of cancellations, or if
additional spaces are available after the registration period.
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If more than 5 students pre-register from any one school, only the
first five from that school will be selected. Schools with more than 5 applicants will have their additional
students placed on the waitlist for future consideration.
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Registration is $20 per student.
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There are two phases to the registration process:
Phase 1: To pre-register, fill out the
Intent to Participate form and email
it to hspc@cis.uab.edu. The deadline for submission of this form is
April 1st. The
registration fee is not due for pre-registration.
Phase 2: If you are among the first 40 students to pre-register, you
will be notified by the organizers. At this stage, you must submit the
registration fee before May 1st. The waitlist will be opened up after this
deadline.
Contest Rules
Please familiarize yourself with the contest rules before arriving on campus.
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers (contact information
below).
The official rules are available here.
Schedule of Events
In addition to the actual contest, a fun day is planned with food and social
activities. Opportunities to meet and interact with UAB computer science faculty
will be provided, as well as a keynote presentation by
Dr. Caitlin Kelleher of
Carnegie-Mellon University.
A draft schedule of the days activities for the 2007 contest is available
here.
List of Prizes
All students will receive a T-shirt and a certificate of
participation. Prizes will be awarded to contestants with the top 15 scores. The list of prizes include:
1st place:
Dell
Laptop,
Visual Studio,
and award plaque
2nd place:
Microsoft Xbox 360,
Visual Studio,
and award plaque
3rd place: $50 gift
certificate,
Visual Studio,
and award plaque
Students placing among
1st through 15th place will also receive a copy of
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java. These books are provided
through sponsorship by
Addison-Wesley.
First place through third place award plaques will also
be given to eligible teams. The first place team will also receive a
Visual Studio
license.
Sample Contest Questions
The contest problems are available
from the following past competitions:
2005 Contest Problems
2006 Contest Problems
Original Contest Flyer
The 2007 original flyer that was mailed out to all Alabama high schools is
available here.
Past Contests
The results of previous contests are available, including photos,
problem sets, and competition rankings. The past contests are organized by year
of competition:
2005 - Inaugural Competition
2006 Competition
Contest Organization
Organizers
To contact the organizers, please send an email to
hspc@cis.uab.edu, or call (205)-934-8643.
Volunteers
Judges
Judging Chair: Fran Fabrizio,
UAB CIS
Amos Smith, UAB CIS
Chun Wei, UAB CIS
Enis Afgan, UAB CIS
Eric Frees, UAB CIS
Jason Devine, CTS
Jeff Frees, UAB CIS
Lin Yang, UAB CIS
Mike Stueve, UAB CIS
Radha Mukkai, CTS
Shih-Hsi Liu, UAB CIS
Steven Dunn, UAB CIS
Steve Wingo, Southern Company
Registration Greeters
Registration Chair: Shekera
Stanley, UAB CIS
Jayne Ivy, UAB CIS
Les Williams, CTS
Wayne Schroer, CTS
System Administration Assistants
Thom Savage, UAB CIS
Kurrum Maqbool, UAB CIS
Vaibhav Paneri, UAB CIS
General Assistants
Beth DiPalma, CTS
Cara Turano, CTS
Pre-Contest Arrangements
Brad Wardman, UAB CIS
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following
organizations in providing resources and support to the 2007 HSPC contest:
Page last updated: May 10, 2007
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