Every year, the largest High School Programming Contest (HSPC) in the mid-Atlantic region takes place here at UVA.
Saturday April 13th, 2024
HSPC 2024 is on!
If you are interested in sponsoring the contest, and encouraging high school students to pursue computing, please email hspc@virginia.edu. You can read our sponsorship letter here.
Where do I register?
Previous year's coaches should receive an email from us asking about registration. If you do not receive an email or are a new team interested in participating, please register here.
What do I need to know about registration?
Each team consists of up to three students and one coach. Registration costs $40 per team. Each school may register up to three teams.
Is financial assistance available?
We know that the cost of attendance for our competition may be prohibitive for some schools. If your school is interested in participating but is prevented by the cost, please let our HSPC Contest Chair know by email at hspc@virginia.edu.
This year, we plan to host HSPC in person at UVA! All the information needed for the event can be found in the packet linked here.
HSPC@UVa is run by UVa students! If you are a current or graduated UVa student and want to help inspire high school students, let us know at hspc@virginia.edu or join our Discord server and type !hspc. Thank you!
Rules can be found in the Logistics section of this document.
For further comments or questions, please email hspc@virginia.edu.
Competitors will be allowed to use any IDE they choose. Our judging software will use the following language versions:
We will be using DomJudge to submit and judge solutions.
You can read past problem sets (PDF) and see full solutions with sample and judge input/output (zip) here:
During the contest, the following will be available electronically:
Prizes are likely to include Amazon gift cards, board games, drones, and other similarly useful items.
You can view past results here.
Each team will have access to a single Linux environment with common IDEs, compilers, and editors installed. This computer will be shared by all team members.
If you have any questions, please contact the HSPC contest director (hspc@virginia.edu).