DETAILS

Read here to learn the rules and regulations for the competition

• Why?
  • Have Fun!
  • Practice programming skills!
  • Make new friends!
• Who?
  • Teams of three students each in grades 9-12. If you would like help finding teammates, please contact us.
  • Participants should know basic programming, including reading from standard input and writing to standard out.
  • Two competition brackets (with different programming challenges):
    • Novice programmers: those teams composed of students with one or fewer semesters/quarters of programming classes.
    • Experienced programmers: those teams that have more experience with programming
• When?
  • Saturday, March 9th, 2024, from 1:30pm − 4:30pm (Eastern)
• Where?
  • MSU Engineering Building (exact room to be determined)
• What languages are supported?
  • C
  • C++17
  • C#
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Java 8
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python 2
  • Python 3
  • R
  • Racket
  • If your prefered language isn't listed, let us know!

  For more information about the programming environment (versions, libraries, etc.), see HackerRank and the video above.

• What resources can I use during the competition?
  • Your teammates! Duh.
  • Any books, notes, websites, documentation, StackOverflow, code samples...
  • Basically anything that doesn't involve asking someone outside your team for help.
  • BPlease note that generative AI (e.g. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard) are not permitted to be used during the competition.
• When does my team need to register?
  • March 2nd, 2024
• What forms need to be filled out and submitted by every participant?
  • A Team Registration Form for each team
  • An Individual Registration Form for each contestant
  • Parent Consent-Medical-Media-3FORMS_2024.pdf
  • Please email the consent form for each participant to wie-forms@egr.msu.edu

TEAM REGISTRATION (Part 1 of 2)

Please register ASAP to ensure there is space for your team to attend. If you would like help forming a team, please email us!

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INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION (Part 2 of 2)

Every attendee additionally needs to fill out this form as well.

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In achieving its goals, the Broadening Participation and Women in Engineering K12 program does not unlawfully discriminate. All events and programs are open to students of all races and genders.