The WPI Computer Science department hosted the ninth annual High School Programming contest on an snowy day at the end of a nearly interminable winter in Worcester, Massachusetts. A total of 136 students forming forty-six teams from twenty-three school districts registered for the event. The teams primarily came from school districts from central Massachusetts, although some teams made the trip to WPI from Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Montpelier Vermont.
Full details on the contest can be found at the contest web site.
The four-hour contest was held in four computing laboratories on campus (two in Kaven Hall, one in Salisbury Hall, and one in Fuller Laboratories) and the judging "Command Center" was in KH 116 where team advisors watched the contest unfold in real time as each student submission was judged by the contest judge. Each student team had a single computer on which to work, and so they had to manage their time (and typing ability!) efficiently to be able to place well in the contest. The problems tested the programming ability of the students in different areas, such as number theory, combinatoric problems, dice rolls and music theory. The contest was supported by an on-line submission system that allowed all participants to view the ongoing results of the competition in real-time. The problem set contained 10 problems of varying levels of difficulty, and students had to manage their time carefully as well as the number of their submissions; each failed submission received a small time penalty applicable towards the team score.
Problems Solved | Score | Team |
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10 (GOLD trophy winner) | 33712 | Westborough High School |
10 (SILVER trophy winner) | 49498 | Phillips Academy Andover |
10 (BRONZE trophy winner) | 53350 | Westford Academy |
10 | 74206 | Phillips Exeter Academy |
9 | 65062 | Framingham High School |
8 | 49676 | Phillips Exeter Academy |
8 | 51528 | Advanced Math and Science Academy |
8 | 53719 | Tantasqua Regional High School |
7 | 52834 | Westford Academy |
7 | 58465 | Acton-Boxborough Regional High School |
7 | 62495 | Winchester High School |
7 | 62646 | Wayland High School |
7 | 68052 | Phillips Academy Andover |
6 | 47353 | Mass Academy |
6 | 50740 | Nashoba Regional High School |
6 | 57598 | Winchester High School |
6 | 58448 | Milford High School |
6 | 58731 | Advanced Math and Science Academy |
6 | 59729 | Wayland High School |
5 | 26246 | Algonquin Regional High |
5 | 41828 | Acton-Boxborough Regional High School |
5 | 42026 | Greater Hartford Aacdemy of Math and Science |
5 | 56560 | Needham High School |
4 | 34211 | Framingham High School |
4 | 39085 | Academy of Aerospace and Engineering |
4 | 39228 | Needham High School |
3 | 17697 | U-32 High School |
3 | 19534 | Marlborough High School |
3 | 21199 | U-32 High School |
3 | 21409 | Algonquin Regional High |
3 | 25577 | Wellesley High School |
3 | 27034 | Wellesley High School |
3 | 27531 | Doherty Memorial High |
3 | 34031 | Pioneer Charter School of Science |
2 | 17790 | Westborough High School |
2 | 27460 | Academy of Aerospace and Engineering |
1 | 1144 | Worcester Technical High School |
1 | 12410 | Tantasqua Regional High School |
1 | 2866 | Doherty Memorial High |
1 | 3840 | Nashoba Regional High School |
1 | 5142 | Greater Hartford Academy of Math and Science |
1 | 6852 | Pioneer Charter School of Science |
1 | 7037 | Mass Academy |
1 | 7170 | Milford High School |