2026 High School Programming Contest
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.
| 9:00 am | Registration and Check-In Lobby |
| 10:15 am | Welcome & Contest Overview
Dr. Laxman Dhulipala Antonov Auditorium, IRB 0324 |
| 10:30 am | Practice Session for Students Classrooms 0318, 1116, and 1207 |
| 11:45 am | Lunch Lobby |
| 1:00 pm | Student Competition |
| 2:30 pm | AI Coding Tools
Dr. William Pugh Antonov Auditorium, IRB 0324 |
| 4:00 pm | Dessert Reception (Parents & Families Welcome) Lobby |
| 4:30 pm | Award Ceremony (Parents & Families Welcome) Antonov Auditorim, IRB 0324 |
Atholton High School
BASIS Independent McLean
Broad Run High School
Bullis School
Carter G. Woodson High School
Centennial High School
Columbia Heights Education Campus
Deep Run High School
Falls Church High School
Gaithersburg High School
Havre de Grace High School
Hereford High School
Independence High School
Indian Creek School
Langley High School
McDonogh School
Montgomery Blair High School
Mt Hebron High School
Poolesville High School
Sidwell Friends School
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Towson High School
Wheaton High School
Winston Churchill High School
| Rank | School | Solved | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 | P9 | Total Time |
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| 1 | Montgomery Blair High School |
5 | 1 try 76 mins | 1 try 45 mins | 2 tries 160 mins | 2 tries 96 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 114 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 14 tries 0 mins | 491 |
| 2 | Poolesville High School |
4 | 1 try 86 mins | 3 tries 42 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 4 tries 69 mins | 7 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 63 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 260 |
| 3 | Centennial High School |
4 | 1 try 77 mins | 1 try 19 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 7 tries 126 mins | 11 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 165 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 387 |
| 4 | BASIS Independent McLean | 4 | 1 try 83 mins | 1 try 169 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 87 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 139 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 478 |
| 5 | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | 3 | 1 try 84 mins | 1 try 21 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 83 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 188 |
| 6 | Independence High School |
3 | 2 tries 83 mins | 1 try 29 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 118 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 230 |
| 7 | Hereford High School |
3 | 1 try 49 mins | 3 tries 71 mins | 2 tries 0 mins | 6 tries 149 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 269 |
| 8 | Broad Run High School |
3 | 1 try 99 mins | 1 try 57 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 117 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 273 |
| 9 | Wheaton High School |
3 | 6 tries 145 mins | 1 try 36 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 2 tries 110 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 291 |
| 10 | Deep Run High School |
3 | 1 try 108 mins | 2 tries 108 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 118 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 334 |
| 11 | McDonogh School | 3 | 1 try 83 mins | 3 tries 91 mins | 2 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 177 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 351 |
| 12 | Havre de Grace High School |
3 | 1 try 136 mins | 4 tries 165 mins | 1 try 128 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 429 |
| 13 | Winston Churchill High School |
2 | 8 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 30 mins | 2 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 66 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 96 |
| 14 | Indian Creek School | 2 | 1 try 81 mins | 1 try 24 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 105 |
| 15 | Towson High School |
2 | 1 try 80 mins | 1 try 45 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 0 mins | 2 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 125 |
| 16 | Langley High School |
2 | 5 tries 102 mins | 2 tries 67 mins | 5 tries 0 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 169 |
| 17 | Sidwell Friends School | 2 | 1 try 92 mins | 4 tries 0 mins | 6 tries 0 mins | 1 try 119 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 211 |
| 18 | Gaithersburg High School |
1 | 3 tries 0 mins | 1 try 56 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 56 |
| 19 | Columbia Heights Education Campus | 1 | 1 try 75 mins | 3 tries 0 mins | 1 try 0 mins | 3 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 75 |
| 20 | Mt Hebron High School |
1 | 4 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 88 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 88 |
| 21 | Falls Church High School |
1 | 0 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 153 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 153 |
| 22 | Carter G. Woodson High School |
1 | 9 tries 0 mins | 3 tries 178 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 178 |
| 23 | Atholton High School |
0 | 2 tries 0 mins | 7 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 |
| 23 | Bullis School | 0 | 1 try 0 mins | 3 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 tries 0 mins | 0 |
Lab Director
Director of Corporate Partnership Development
Contest Director
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.
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.
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
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.
