Past challenges/contests

2021 IU Welcome Programming Contest

  • Time: Sep 10, 2021 (Friday), 2:15 to 3:45pm.
  • Format: in-person (Luddy); each team can have up to three students
  • Organizers: Profs. Yan Huang, Chris Raphael, David Crandall and Yuzhen Ye
  • A total of 50 teams participated in the competition
  • Winners:
    1st place: Nikolai Karpov, Alina Filimokhina, Anastasia Kuznetsova
    2nd place: David Majercak, Sai Jannali
    3rd place: Challa Dinesh Reddy, Aravina Ganta
    4th place: Pranav Palani Acharya
    5th place: Chirag Shankae Indi, Renuka Srishti
  • The contest on hackerrank
  • Photos

2020 Halloweeen Programming Contest

  • Time: Oct 31, 3:15-4:45pm
  • Format: virtual
  • Division
  • Winners
    • -- Gradudate division: Xiaomeng Ye (1st place)
    -- Undergradudate division: Adam Ratzman (1st place), Sage Lazzara (2nd place)

2020 Special (Covid-19) IU-CS Programming Contest

  • Time: April 24, 2020 (Friday), 7 to 8:30pm.
  • Format: virtual
  • Divisions
  • Winners
    -- Graduate division
      * First place winner: Nikolai Karpov
      * Second place winner: Ramanadham Gattu
      * Third place winner: Dmitrii Avdiukhin
    -- Undergraduate division
      * First place winner: Scott Dauer
      * Second place winner: Aaron Leslie
  • Organizers: Profs. Yan Huang and Yuzhen Ye

    2019 IU programming contest (see the photos)

    • Time: April 20 (Saturday), 1 to 5:30pm
    • Place: Luddy Hall (ground level)
    • Organizers: Yuan Zhou, Yan Huang and Yuzhen Ye
    • Get the flyer
    • Nearly 70 teams participated in the contest.
      • Graduate division (50 participating teams)
        • 1st place – Team OlyaAndAlina (Nikolai Karpov & Dmitrii Avdiukhin), solved all 9 problems
        • 2nd place – Team maoth1 (Jice Wang, Tianhao Mao, Di Tang), solved 5 problems
        • 3rd place – Team ATF694 (Yue Guo, Yadi Wei, Wei Zhang), solved 5 problems
      • Undergraduate division (13 participating teams)
        • 1st place – Team Singleton (Steven O’riley), solved 4 problems
        • 2nd place – Team mrgottli (Mitchell Gottlieb, Nick Frasco, Rowan Lavelle), solved 3 problems
        • 3rd place – Team teamCTC (Tommy Wu, Chris Fang, Zehui Xiong), solved 3 problems
      • Pre-college division (6 participating teams)
        • 1st place – Team danlarse (Daniel Larsen), solved 4 problems
        • 2nd place – Team foxalexis7 (Alexis Fox, Sandra Yang), solved 2 problems
        • 3rd place – Team freshfruitfromj1 (Hunter Tang), solved 1 problem

    2018 Inaugural SICE Programming Competition (April 20, 2018) (link)