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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.
The next contest will take place May 10, 2008.
Related Event: 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 are shown. Awards are given out at the film festival in several categories. More information about the AFF is available here.
Related Event: The CIS Department offers a 5-week summer camp for high school and middle school students. If you are interested in the camps, more information is available here.
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.
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.
Registration is $20 per student.
The deadline for submission of this form was April 1st. We are no longer accepting registrations.
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.
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 Barbara Ericson from Georgia Tech.
A draft schedule of the days activities for the 2008 contest is available here.
Directions and Parking Information
Parking information and directions to the CIS Department can be found 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: Nintendo Wii, Visual Studio, and award plaque
3rd place: $50 gift certificate, Visual Studio, and award plaqueStudents placing among 1st through 15th place will also receive a copy of Introduction to Computing and Java: A Multimedia Approach, by Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson. These books are provided through sponsorship by Pearson Higher Education.
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.
The contest problems are available from the following past competitions:
2007 Contest Problems: Problem Set and Sample Student Solutions (from top-3 finishers)
Original Contest Flyer
The 2008 original flyer that was mailed out to all Alabama high schools is available here.
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The results of previous contests are available, including photos, problem sets, and competition rankings. The past contests are organized by year of competition:
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
Other judges - TBA
Registration Greeters
Registration Chair: TBA
Other greeters - TBA
System Administration Assistants
Thom Savage, UAB CIS
Other assistants - TBA
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations in providing resources and support to the 2008 HSPC contest:
Page last updated: April 12, 2008