HSPC 2025

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Show Off Your Problem-Solving Skills!

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.

WHERE

Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
at University of Maryland
8125 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD

WHEN

Saturday, February 8, 2025
CS Turtle
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
4:00 pm Dessert Reception
(Parents & Families Welcome)
Lobby
4:30 pm Award Ceremony
(Parents & Families Welcome)
Antonov Auditorim, IRB 0324

Academies of Loudoun
Archbishop Spalding High School
Atholton High School
Broad Run High School
Centennial High School
CG Woodson High School
Deep Run High School
Falls Church High School
Gaithersburg High School
Glenelg High School
Gonzaga College High School
Governor's Career and Technical Academy Arlington
Guilford Park High School
Hereford High School
Independence High School
Indian Creek School
Kent Island High School
Loudoun Valley High School
Marriotts Ridge High School
Montgomery Blair High School
Mount Hebron High School
Rock Ridge High School
Sidwell Friends School
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Wheaton High School
Winston Churchill High School
Yorktown High School

Rank School SolvedP1P2P3P4P5P6P7P8P9Total
1 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology 6
1 try
7 mins

1 try
9 mins

1 try
64 mins

2 tries
153 mins

4 tries
135 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
99 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
527
2 Academies of Loudoun 4
1 try
10 mins

1 try
8 mins

3 tries
0 mins

2 tries
26 mins

5 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
122 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
196
3 Centennial
High School
4
1 try
6 mins

1 try
5 mins

5 tries
0 mins

2 tries
26 mins

5 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
172 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
219
4 Sidwell Friends School 4
1 try
7 mins

2 tries
50 mins

2 tries
186 mins

2 tries
48 mins

2 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
0 mins
321
5 Marriotts Ridge
High School
4
2 tries
102 mins

2 tries
85 mins

1 try
172 mins

1 try
122 mins

9 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
380
6 Montgomery Blair
High School
3
1 try
41 mins

1 try
19 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
51 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

2 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins
111
7 Rock Ridge
High School
3
1 try
8 mins

1 try
25 mins

4 tries
0 mins

3 tries
72 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
125
8 Broad Run
High School
3
1 try
8 mins

1 try
100 mins

6 tries
0 mins

1 try
85 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
193
9 Winston Churchill
High School
3
1 try
36 mins

3 tries
66 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
87 mins

1 try
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
229
10 Yorktown
High School
3
1 try
45 mins

1 try
97 mins

0 tries
0 mins

2 tries
81 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

8 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
233
11 Wheaton
High School
3
1 try
27 mins

2 tries
83 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
147 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
0 mins
287
12 Gaithersburg
High School
3
2 tries
46 mins

1 try
59 mins

0 tries
0 mins

2 tries
181 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
306
13 Archbishop Spalding
High School
3
3 tries
76 mins

1 try
23 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
189 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
308
14 Atholton
High School
3
4 tries
49 mins

1 try
40 mins

0 tries
0 mins

6 tries
156 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins
325
15 Deep Run
High School
2
1 try
19 mins

1 try
23 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

1 try
0 mins
42
16 Thomas S. Wootton
High School
2
1 try
59 mins

1 try
16 mins

0 tries
0 mins

4 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins
75
17 Independence
High School
2
1 try
15 mins

4 tries
42 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

3 tries
0 mins
87
18 Falls Church
High School
2
2 tries
50 mins

1 try
59 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

1 try
0 mins
119
19 CG Woodson
High School
2
1 try
63 mins

2 tries
74 mins

1 try
0 mins

4 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

2 tries
0 mins
147
20 Hereford
High School
2
1 try
82 mins

1 try
94 mins

0 tries
0 mins

5 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
176
21 Governor's Career and Technical Academy Arlington 2
6 tries
139 mins

1 try
34 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
223
22 Gonzaga College
High School
2
1 try
67 mins

3 tries
147 mins

2 tries
0 mins

6 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

4 tries
0 mins
234
23 Loudoun Valley
High School
2
5 tries
145 mins

3 tries
125 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
330
24 Guilford Park
High School
1
1 try
55 mins

4 tries
0 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
55
25 Indian Creek School 1
2 tries
148 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

2 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins
158
26 Mount Hebron
High School
1
4 tries
132 mins

5 tries
0 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
162
27 Glenelg
High School
0
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 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins
0
27 Kent Island
High School
0
5 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

1 try
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

0 tries
0 mins

3 tries
0 mins
0

Contest Organizers

Jeanine Worden

Lab Director

Maria Johnson

Director of Corporate Partnership Development

Staffworld student workers and alumni volunteers on the Iribe Center rooftop

Staffworld student workers and alumni volunteers

Problem Developers & Contest Judges

Laxman Dhulipala

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.

Parking Accommodations

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.

image of parking map

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

INCLEMENT WEATHER

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.