Loyola College 2006-07 High School Programming Contest

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Welcome to the Loyola College Programming Contest!

Time and Place

After checking local road conditions, we have decided that the contest will proceed as planned with a 9am registration, breakfast, and warm-up and a 10am start for competition. Roads seem to have been treated well enough and to have dried out quickly enough so that they did not freeze over during the night. Nevertheless, please exercise caution, especially where water may have puddled last night. Posted 6:35am

This year's contest will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Loyola College's Columbia Graduate Center at 8890 McGaw Road in Howard County. The directions will guide you to the center. Registration and breakfast is at 9:00am; the contest proper begins at 10:00am; please see the schedule of activites for more information.

Registration

Registration is full! Please let us know if you wish to be placed on the waiting list. Schools participating this year are

Oakland Mills High School Towson High School Sherwood High School Stone Bridge High School
Centennial High School Paul VI High School Calvert Hall College High School Atholton High School
Montgomery Blair High School Parkville High School Marriotts Ridge High School  

Please use the registration form to register teams. You can submit the form by FAX (410-617-2157) or regular mail (the address is on the form). You may also register by e-mail; please send all of the information requested on the printed form. We have room for 20 teams. We will register one team per school on a first come, first served basis until December 15th. After that date, any remaining spaces will be allocated to schools wishing to register multiple teams. All registrations must be received by January 12th.

Prizes

Thanks to the continued generous support of Northrop Grumman, we have maintained our prize levels from last year and added a fourth-place prize. Northrop Grumman is a leading employer of Computer Science and IT professionals in the Baltimore-Washington area and they employ many graduates of Loyola College.

Contest Rules

Please check the contest rules shortly before the contest in case any changes have been made.

Programming Environment

Each team will have one (and only one) workstation to use during the contest. All computers run Windows XP and will have jGRASP and Java installed. Select workstations can have Eclipse and Visual Studio installed on request. In addition, there will be remote access to a machine running Linux for teams who prefer a Unix environment.

For more information, see the lab environment instructions.

Sample Problems

You can visit the page for the 2005-06 contest held in January 2006 for last year's problems and other information about that contest.

Teams will have an opportunity before the contest begins to see how the development environment and submission system work. A simple practice problem as well as the first one from last year's contest will be available for testing.

Submissions and judging will be done with the PC2 system that is used for the ACM collegiate programming contests. Documentation for PC2 is available online.