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.