Bring your own laptop!!!

• This year contestants will be required to bring their own laptop to the contest.
• Please install the contest image and connect.
• Installation instructions as well as how to contact for technical support can be found here: ImageBurnUSB

• 8:00am: Registration opens
• 8:00am - 11:00am: Breakfast
• 8:00am - 10:00am: Practice contest
• 10:00am - 11:00am: Opening Ceremony
• 11:00am - 4:00pm: Contest
• 1:00pm - 3:00pm: Coaches Meeting/Talks/Presentations
• 4:00pm - 5:30pm: Closing Ceremony and Dinner

• Each team name must consist of the institution name (greater than 1 character but less than or equal to 8 characters) followed by a hyphen (-) followed by a team name (greater than 0 characters but less than or equal to 24 characters). Please note that spaces are counted as characters.
• Format:INSTITUTION-TEAMNAME
  INSTITUTION = University name or abbreviation. 1 < length(INSTITUTION ) <= 8.
  TEAMNAME = Your team name. 1 <= length(TEAMNAME) <= 24.
  
  Each individual institution must use the same name for the INSTITUTION field.
  
  Eg. If Binghamton University sends multiple teams each team must fill in the INSTITUTION field with the same name.
  
  BU-TEAMNAME1
  BU-TEAMNAME2
  BU-TEAMNAME3
  OR
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME1
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME2
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME3
  
  

• First-time contestants: Create an account on the ICPC website here
• Returning contestants: Make sure your ICPC profile information is up-to-date here (including shirt size)
• Coaches: Once your contestants have accounts on the ICPC website, create your teams here
• T-Shirts - Please make sure to fill out the correct sizes for yourself and your team. Shirts must be ordered weeks in advance.

• Most first semester graduate students are allowed to participate. A team may be comprised of all first semester graduate students that meet eligibility requirements. If you have any questions about this please email the contest Director.
• For a complete list of rules and eligibility requirements, click here.

• $200 each team (including one coach per school), plus $50 per guest.

• Each team will be required to participate in the ongoing practice contest.
• A link to the contest image will be emailed when available.
• Instructions to burn the image to an USB drive can be found here:ImageBurnUSB
• Each team will be assigned a login and password.
• Each team will be required to submit a correct and incorrect solution to a problem provided. This will help familiarize each team with the system and provide test data for the region.
• Failure to participate in one of the mock contests will result in a team receiving low priority should any technical issues arrise during the practice and/or actual contest on October 29.

Previous Years

• 2023 at Columbia University: standings or Problem set, sample and secret judges' data, judges' solutions
• 2022 at Sacred Heart University: standings or problems or rules
• 2021 Online Contest (No Host): standings or problems or rules
• 2020 Online Contest (No Host): standings or problems or rules
• 2019 at New Jersey Institute of Technology standings or problems or rules
• 2018 at Manhattan College: standings or problems or rules
• 2017 at Manhattan College, Yale, Stony Brook, Binghamton College: standings or problems or rules
• 2016 at Manhattan College: standings or problems or rules
• 2015 at Queens College: standings or problems or rules
• 2014 at St. Joseph's University: standings or problems or rules
• 2013 at Yale University: standings or problems or rules
• 2012 at Stony Brook University: standings or problems or rules
• 2011 at Adelphi University: standings or problems
• 2010 at Rutgers University: standings or problems
• 2009 at Hofstra University: standings or problems
• 2008 at St. Joseph's College: standings or problems
• 2007 at Kean University: standings or problems
• 2006 at Nassau Community College: standings or problems
• 2005 at Kean University: standings or problems
• 2004 at Iona College and Stevens Tech: standings or problems
• 2003 at New York Institute of Technology: standings or problems
• 2002 at Columbia University: standings or problems
• 2001 at Nassau Community College: standings or problems
• 2000 at Kean University: standings or problems
• 1999 at USMA: standings or problems
• 1998 at Bloomfield College: standings or problems
• 1997 at USMA: problems

• International Collegiate Programming Contest
• Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual, by Steve Skiena and Miguel Revilla, via Barnes and Noble or Amazon
• Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Programming Contest, hosted by our very own St. Joseph's College
• Project Euler
• ICPC page on Wikipedia

For More Information contact the Contest Director Joe Terlizzi