HSPC 2024

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Show Off Your Problem-Solving Skills!

HSPC is a 3 hour competition where high school students from the DC metropolitan area compete in teams of four to demonstrate their programming skills and problem solving abilities.

WHERE

Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
at University of Maryland
8125 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD

WHEN

Saturday, February 3, 2024
CS Turtle
9:00 am Registration and Check-In
10:15 am Welcome & Contest Overview
10:30 am Practice Session for Students
11:45 am Lunch
1:00 pm Student Competition
4:00 pm Dessert Reception
(Parents & Families Welcome)
4:30 pm Award Ceremony
(Parents & Families Welcome)

Archbishop Spalding High School
Atholton High School
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Broad Run High School
Centennial High School
Clarksburg High School
Deep Run High School
Falls Church High School
Friends School of Baltimore
Gaithersburg High School
Glenelg High School
Governor's Career and Technical Academy Arlington
Gwynn Park High
Independence High School
Loudoun Valley High School
Marriotts Ridge High School
Montgomery Blair High School
Mount St. Joseph HS
Mt Hebron High School
Northwest High School
Poolesville High School
Riverside High School
Rock Ridge High School
Springbrook High School
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
W.T. Woodson High School
Wheaton High School
Winston Churchill High School
Yorktown High School

RankNameSolvedTime    P1        P2        P3        P4        P5        P6        P7        P8        P9    Total att/solv
1Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology95891/41/121/321/221/842/671/1471/1261/7510/9
2Montgomery Blair High School75231/92/1291/321/193/1241/622/--0/--1/8812/7
3Centennial High School77221/91/202/502/1173/962/1612/1490/--0/--13/7
4Marriotts Ridge High School62911/31/132/382/380/--1/671/1120/--1/--9/6
5Friends School of Baltimore41801/41/311/581/871/--0/--0/--0/--0/--5/4
6Yorktown High School42341/171/420/--1/773/--0/--1/980/--0/--7/4
7Mount St. Joseph HS42381/21/251/662/1251/--0/--0/--0/--0/--6/4
8Glenelg High School44001/41/532/1252/1780/--4/--0/--0/--0/--10/4
9Broad Run High School44441/71/1063/1500/--0/--2/1210/--0/--7/--14/4
10Poolesville High School44831/41/767/1383/1052/--3/--0/--0/--0/--17/4
11Rock Ridge High School31882/91/372/1020/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--5/3
12W.T. Woodson High School32271/51/1320/--2/700/--0/--0/--0/--0/--4/3
13Northwest High School32621/21/974/1031/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--7/3
14Winston Churchill High School2441/11/430/--0/--0/--1/--0/--0/--0/--3/2
15Independence High School2911/111/800/--2/--0/--0/--0/--1/--0/--5/2
16Clarksburg High School21271/131/1140/--1/--0/--1/--0/--0/--0/--4/2
17Deep Run High School21551/131/1420/--0/--0/--0/--3/--0/--0/--5/2
18Falls Church High School21641/90/--1/1550/--0/--0/--3/--0/--0/--5/2
19Mt Hebron High School21722/101/1420/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--3/2
20Governor's Career and Technical Academy Arlington22143/941/800/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--4/2
21Baltimore Polytechnic Institute23012/116/1700/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--8/2
22Loudoun Valley High School171/71/--0/--0/--0/--1/--0/--0/--0/--3/1
23Atholton High School191/92/--0/--0/--3/--0/--2/--0/--0/--8/1
23Riverside High School191/90/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--1/1
25Gaithersburg High School1101/100/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--1/1
26Archbishop Spalding High School1131/131/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--2/1
27Springbrook High School1171/170/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--1/1
28Wheaton High School1491/490/--0/--0/--0/--1/--0/--0/--1/--3/1
29Dominion High School000/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/0
29Gwynn Park High004/--1/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--5/0
29River Hill High School000/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/--0/0

Contest Organizers

Mel. Coles

Special Events Coordinator

Jeanine Worden

Lab Director

Maria Johnson

Director of Corporate Partnership Development

Staffworld student workers and alumni volunteers on the Iribe Center rooftop

Staffworld student workers and alumni volunteers

Problem Developers & Contest Judges

Amol Deshpande

Contest Director

2024 Contest Problems & Solutions

2024 contest resources are available on GitHub.

2023 Contest Problems & Solutions

2023 contest resources are available on GitHub.

Contest Environment

Contest Rules and Software

The Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering is located at the University of Maryland–College Park, and less than one mile from the College Park Metro station (Metro’s Green Line). See here.

Parking Accommodations

Free parking is available in Regents Drive Garage (Lot B) or across the street in Lot H, as long as the space does not have to be paid for via meter or pay station. Parking may be tough so please allow extra time for finding a space and walking to the event. Please feel free to use the campus parking map if you need to.

image of parking map

Regents Drive Garage is a few minutes walk to Iribe (see above) and is located adjacent to the Plant Sciences and Chemistry buildings, near the center of campus. For directions to the Regents Drive Garage from your current location, you may use Google Maps. For online navigation tools or GPS units, please use this address: 200 Regents Drive, College Park, MD 20742

INCLEMENT WEATHER

The Department of Computer Science abides by all University of Maryland, College Park openings and closings. Weather alerts and weather-related schedule updates will be announced on the University of Maryland homepage and the "snow phone line" (301.405.SNOW (7669)), and reported to local radio and television stations.