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2019 Challenge Schedule

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Registration

The contest is open to all female middle school and high school students. The speaker series and panel session are open to everyone. Registration will officially close on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Attendees for speaker sessions only are also welcome.

Schedule

 8:10am   -   8:40am    Registration (Check-in at Nichols Hall)
 8:40am   -   9:10am    Contest Setup
  9:10am   -  11:10am    Contest
11:20am   -  12:00pm    Keynote Speech (Professor Brunskill)
12:00pm   -  12:40pm    Lunch
12:40pm   -    1:20pm    Keynote Speech (Dr. Yinglian Xie)
  1:30pm   -    2:30pm    Panel Discussion: Women in STEM and AI (Hui, Haiying, Avanti, Sonu, Garima)
 2:30pm   -    3:00pm    Awards

Speakers

Chelsea Finn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford

Sharon Zhou, PhD Candidate at Stanford

Page Bailey, Product Manager of Tensorflow at Google

Sreeja Nair, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Qualcomm

Sue Xu, PhD, Managing Partner at Amino Capital

Kate Schafer, PhD, Teacher at the Harker School

Contest Rules & FAQ

Contest Format

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Students will participate in either the Novice or Advanced division. In each division, the contest will consist of 9 algorithmic programming problems of varying difficulty to be solved in 2 hours. Example problems and solutions can be downloaded from http://www.tiny.cc/gpl_challenge_samples.

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Languages

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Solutions to the problems must be coded in Java, Python or C++.

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Input and Output

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All input and output are sent to and received from the the following specific consoles:

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  • Java System.in / System.out

  • C++ cin / cout

  • Python sys.stdin / sys.stdout

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Internet Access and Communications

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Only one laptop maybe used per team during the contest. During the contest, you may not use or view any code that has been written prior to the start of the contest. Only these websites and their subdomains may be referenced:

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Awards

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Top three teams in each division will get awards and trophies. Top 10 teams in each division will get certificates.

Sponsors

AI4ALL Community Impact Grant

The Harker School Computer Science Department

Zoom

Amino Capital

AlphaStar Academy

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