The Maryland High School Programming Contest brings talented students from high schools throughout the metropolitan area to the campus to participate in a three hour competition which will test their programming skills and problem solving abilities. This is a day long event.

Students compete in teams of four. Programs are written in Pascal, and submitted electronically to the judges who test the programs and decide if a submission satisfies the corectness criteria. If you are interested in additional deatils about the format of the competation, you can view the complete rules.

The 1996 Contest was held on March 2 at the University College Campus of the University of Maryland. Twenty-one teams from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia competed.

The J. Robert Dorfman Prize given by Step L.,Inc. ($1000 for the most elegant solution to a numerical analysis problem) went to Montgomery Blair High School.

Problems (Postscript version)

1. Protecting Computer Information - Sample Solution
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2. Maximal Layers - Sample Solution
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3. Largest Monotone Submatrix - Sample Solution
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4. Detecting Deadlock - Sample Solution
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5. Raining Mad Fangs (Finding Anagrams) - Sample Solution
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6. Counting squares - Sample Solution
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7. Inside? - Sample Solution
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8. Raising X To a Power - Sample Solution
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Contest Judges

Jeff Hollingsworth (director)

Pete Cottrell

Bill Pugh

Dave Mount

Chau-Wen Tseng

Sponsors

The following corporations and organizations donated money or services to support the 1996 Maryland High School Programming Contest.

Computer Science Department, University of Maryland - College Park

Step L, Inc.

University of Maryland - University College

Vitro

Last updated: Mar/4/1996 - hollings@cs.umd.edu
University of Maryland at College Park/ Department of Computer Science/ College Park, MD 20742 USA