8:30am    -   9:00am Check-in
9:00am    -  11:00am   Contest
11:15am  -  12:00pm   Keynote Speech
12:00pm - 12:15pm Sponsor talks
12:15pm  -  1:00pm     Lunch
1:00pm   -  2:00pm    Women in STEM Panel Discussion: COVID-19
2:00pm   -  2:30pm    Closing Remarks + Awards

Speakers

Meredith Lee, PhD, Founding Executive Director of the West BigData Innovation Hub

Caroline Buckee, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Sandra Butler, Associate Director of the SpringBoard Studio at Massachusetts General Hospital

Nita Madhov, CEO at Metabiota

Priyanka Surio, Director of Data Analytics at ASTHO

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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• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api

• http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

• http://en.cppreference.com/w/

• https://docs.python.org/2.7/

• http://web.harker.org/programming

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