The School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor organizes an annual Computer Programming Competition for secondary school students. This event includes one optional training session, one mock competition training session, followed by a formal competition. An award ceremony follows immediately after the formal competition. In addition to being coached by their own high school teachers, students will also be trained in program design and development in a selected programming language in the training sessions.

All registered secondary school students with interest in computer programming may participate.  No prior programming experience is necessary but would be an asset in the competition. Each secondary school may send up to 2 teams of up to 3 members each to compete. Schools may send additional non-competing teams if they wish provided there is sufficient space. Non-competing teams do not qualify for any awards.

In the formal competition your team will receive 5 questions and you will have 3 hours to code them as a team. You can use any language from Java, C, or C++, and Python. All I/O is console based. While knowledge in one or more programming language is an asset, the training sessions are designed to assist students to quickly learn one of these computer languages (typically Java).  The team who successfully codes the most questions correctly in the shortest time wins.

It does not cost you anything to join the programming competition other than getting your team to the university campus; free parking is provided for registered coaches upon request.  Winners will receive valuable prizes and their high school will receive recognition for their excellence. We do accommodate special requests from schools located in the county outside the city limits for busing needs.