2021 Challenge Schedule
Registration
The contest is open to all female middle school and high school students. The speaker series and panel session are open to everyone. Attendees for speaker sessions only are also welcome.
Schedule
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: CS & Entertainment
2:00pm - 2:30pm Closing Remarks + Awards
Speakers
Shobana Radakrishnan, Director at GoogleTV
Pei Cao, Engineering Director and Technical Leader at Youtube
Lynn Root, Staff Engineer at Spotify
Jenny Lin, Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Netflix
Pavitra Rengarajan, Machine Learning Engineer and Technical Lead at Instagram
Contest Rules & FAQ
Contest Format
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.
Languages
Solutions to the problems must be coded in Java, Python or C++.
Input and Output
All input and output are sent to and received from the the following specific consoles:
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Java System.in / System.out
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C++ cin / cout
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Python sys.stdin / sys.stdout
Internet Access and Communications
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:
Awards
Top three teams in each division will get awards and trophies. Top 10 teams in each division will get certificates.
Sponsors
Bugsee
The Harker School Computer Science Department
Jane Street
P2S
Repl
Zoom