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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 last contest was held on May 16, 2009. We are planning to offer another contest in May 2010. Please contact gray@cis.uab.edu for more information.
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 the UAB Summer Computer Camps - a 4-week series of summer camps for high school and middle school students. If you are interested in the camps, more information is available here.
Please familiarize yourself with the contest rules before arriving on campus. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at hspc@cis.uab.edu.
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 Dr. Wanda Dann from Carnegie Mellon University.
A schedule of the days activities for the 2009 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 20 scores. The list of prizes include:
1st place: Dell Laptop, Visual Studio, and award plaque
2nd place: Microsoft XBox, Visual Studio, and award plaque
3rd place: $50 gift certificate, Visual Studio, and award plaqueStudents placing among 1st through 20th place will also receive a computer science textbook. 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:
2005 Contest Problems: Problem Set
2006 Contest Problems: Problem Set
2007 Contest Problems: Problem Set and Sample Student Solutions (from top-3 finishers)
2008 Contest Problems: Problem Set and Sample Student Solutions (from top-3 finishers)
2009 Contest Problems: Problem Set and Sample Student Solution (from Josh Swank, first place finisher)
Original Contest Flyer
The 2009 contest flyer 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:
2007 Competition
2008 Competition (coming soon)2009 Competition (coming soon)
To contact the organizers, please send an email to hspc@cis.uab.edu, or call (205)-934-8643.
Volunteers
Judges
Judging Chair: Fran Fabrizio
Eric T Frees
Hyun Cho
Jeffrey W Frees
Patrick Butler
Qichao Liu
Robert Tairas
Srinivasa Datla
Thom Savage
Xiao Li
Yu Sun
Zekai Demirezen
HSPC Volunteers
Alexander Filby
Amy Dillavou
Curtis Bussey
Daniel P Mills
Dixon Shuttleworth
Heather McCalley
Joel Tully
Josh Nielsen
Justin Marbutt
Laquwanea Johnson
Mandar Sudame
Ramaraju Rudraraju
Vetria Byrd
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations in providing resources and support to the 2009 HSPC contest:
Page last updated: May 23, 2009