The Rogers High School team, the Asian Sensations, took first place in the speed-based programming competition, held on campus with more than 80 participants and 130 attendees from 10 schools.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will host this year s annual High School Programming Contest on March 9. Registration is open until Feb. 9.
March 4, 2021
The third annual Cornell High School Programming Contest Warm Up, a virtual computer programming competition, was less a contest and more a chance for budding programmers to hone their skills.
The event, held Feb. 27, encouraged participation by high school girls and other high school students from groups underrepresented in technology. It was held in advance of Cornell’s annual High School Programming Contest, which is open to all and will be held April 17.
Doral TreeSum, from Doral Academy in Florida, topped the field of 51 two- and three-person teams from 10 states; a total of 135 students competed in the event, during which teams had two hours to solve eight programming problems. In all, seven teams (including two from Half Hollow Hills High in Dix Hills, New York) were able to solve seven problems; teams earned points based on the difficulty of the problems and the time it took to solve them.
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