International Collegiate Programming Competition - Oct 29

The annual International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) is starting on October 29th this year, and you can fill out this form here if you’re interested!

The International Collegiate Programming Competition https://icpc.global is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world with thousands of participants from 3,000+ universities every year. An opportunity to collaborate with a team of friends and classmates on a set of programming challenges, the ICPC is open to any interested (undergraduate) student.

For Yale, the contest begins at the Greater New York Regionals, to be held at Columbia University this year on Sunday, October 29th. Brunch and dinner will be provided with the contest running from 11am-4pm. In the allotted five hours, you’ll be working in teams of three to solve a set of programming problems. We will host an information session and show some examples of problems from the past on Monday, October 2nd, 6-7:30pm (we’re hoping to order pizza!).

Based on last year’s contest, we anticipate about 80 teams across 15 schools at regionals, with five teams advancing to the North American Championship. Yale’s teams, led by Professor Ruzica Piskac, have done well in past years with a team advancing to the World Finals in 2022!

The interest form (linked again below, not a commitment or official registration) helps us to gauge the number of people we will have. Once we finalize our teams, we will submit our registration as a school.