Programs And Courses

35th Annual Computer Problem Solving Contest!

Participating schools are to be represented by teams of no more than three students each. Our facilities restrict us to the accommodation of no more than twenty (20) teams; however, we urge schools to submit two teams, a first team and an alternate team. After all registrations for first team entries have been processed, we will accept alternate teams from schools submitting them, based on earliest online registration time stamp. Registration is now online. Make sure you receive an email confirming your registration.

The contest will consist of five to seven problems from a variety of applications. Solutions will be scored according to the following three criteria:

  1. Output - Is it completely correct and functional?
  2. Style - Is it structured, efficient, and fluid?
  3. Documentation - Is the program easy to understand?

Each team will be required to provide their own computer and a grounded extension cord. The use of the internet, manuals or textual materials of any kind will not be allowed! We will provide pencils and scratch paper for the teams to use for the design and coding of their solutions prior to solution implementation. Students will be allowed to implement the solutions to the problems in either BASIC, Visual Basic, Pascal, C/C++, Java, or Python.  

Prizes to be awarded include:

  • A school trophy for the first place team
  • School plaques for each of the second, third, and fourth place teams
  • Individual plaques for each of the team members on those teams earning school awards.

For more information, please contact Matthew Pragel, HACC associate professor of mathematics, at 717-780-2364 or mepragel@hacc.edu. 
 

Register here!
 

Registration is open Jan. 1 - March 27, 2023 or until space is filled.

2023 Computer Problem Solving Contest
April 21, 2023
 

Time

Activity

8:30-9 a.m.

Arrival, registration and set-up

9-9:10 a.m.

General meeting for all participants

9:10-11:30 a.m.

Computer contest

11:15-11:30 a.m.

Begin submission of contest materials

11:30-11:45 a.m.

HACC Admissions presentation

 

This contains a description of the criteria to be used for evaluating the programs submitted by the student teams; these criteria are based on the current literature and thought concerning desirable aspects of good programming style.

Programs will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

 

Rules

Scoring

Output 
  • The results must be correct as specified by the problem definition; additionally, sufficient sample runs should be submitted to verify that correctness of results is maintained under all possible conditions.
  • Page headers, column headers, and descriptive text should be provided so that the meaning of the results can be understood by interested parties with little difficulty.
  • Output data should be formatted for a "clean" appearance and readability.

20 points

Style
  • The code and underlying algorithm should be as uncomplicated as possible; that is, simplistic, clear, and direct. Exotic algorithms are to be avoided.
  • Each of the functional units required for obtaining the solution to the problem should be coded as physically distinct units; each of which will perform one step of the algorithm.
  • The logical flow of execution should indicate an awareness of structured design with minimal use of the branching construct (GOTOs).

20 points

Internal Documentation
  • The purpose of the program should be stated clearly and concisely at the beginning of the program.
  • Meaningful variable names should be used and a variable table should be provided that gives the name of each variable used and the information that each variable represents.
  • Comments should be included to indicate the major logic breaks and to describe the purpose of each functional unit encountered at each logic break.

20 points

Place

High School

 Winners

First

Middletown High School

 Blue Raiders:
Christian Burke-Bowman
Ryder Webster
Justin Yohn

Second

Conrad Weiser High School

 First Team:
Cody Reeser
Adam Reifsnyder
Van Wirebach

Third

Conrad Weiser High School

 Alternate Team:
Oliver De Leon
Nate Rickert
Mark Yazemboski

Fourth

Plymouth Whitemarsh High School

 PWHS Team 2:
Fatima Alsammak
Matt Dolin
Jake Valentine


TOP TEAMS

1. Middletown High School – Blue Raiders
2. Conrad Weiser High School – First Team
3. Conrad Weiser High School – Alternate Team
4. Plymouth Whitemarsh High School – Team 2
5. Emmaus High School – Team #2
6. Hershey High School – Team 1
7. Plymouth Whitemarsh High School – Team 1
8. Central Dauphin High School – CD-2
9. Ephrata High School – Mountaineers II
10. Emmaus High School – Team #1
11. Annville-Cleona High School – Red1
12. Ephrata High School – Mountaineers

Place

High School

 Winners

First

Plymouth Whitemarsh High School
 

 PWHS A:
David Garcia
Hana Kenworthy
Ben Lubas

Second

Emmaus High School

 Binary Bees:
Bradley Klemick
Millan Patel
Tien Pham

Third

Hershey High School

 Team #1:
Seth Corbin
Levent Batakci
Maxwell Potter

Fourth

Ephrata High School

Mountaineers A:
Caleb McKinney
Colin Robson

Nick Hoopes

TOP TEN TEAMS

1. Plymouth Whitemarsh High School – PWHS A
2. Emmaus High School – Binary Bees
3. Hershey High School – Team 1
4. Ephrata High School – Mountaineers A
5. Elizabethtown High School – Team 1
6. Elizabethtown High School – Team 2
7. Hempfield High School
8. Ephrata High School – Mountaineers B
9. Emmaus High School – Hornets
10. Hershey High School – Team 2

Place

High School

First

Emmaus High School

Second

Emmaus High School

Third

Conrad Weiser High School
Fourth Hershey High School

Year

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 Fourth Place

2014

 Plymouth Whitemarsh Hershey Emmaus Elizabethtown Area

2013

 Plymouth Whitemarsh Plymouth Whitemarsh Elizabethtown Area New Oxford

2012

 Conrad Weiser Elizabethtown Area Conrad Weiser Hershey

2011

 New Oxford Emmaus Annville-Cleona West Perry

2010

 Annville-Cleona New Oxford Plymouth Whitemarsh Hempfield

2009

 New Oxford Annville-Cleona West Perry Conrad Weiser and Emmaus (Tie)

2008

 West Perry Lebanon Hershey Emmaus

2007

 Emmaus Conrad Weiser West Perry Emmaus

2006

 Susquenita Annville-Cleona Conrad Weiser Conrad Weiser

2005

 Conrad Weiser Hershey Elizabethtown Hershey

2004

 Elizabethtown Hempfield Conrad Weiser West Perry

2003

 Hempfield Cumberland Valley West Perry Elizabethtown

2002

 West Perry Cumberland Valley Hempfield Conrad Weiser

2001

 Conrad Weiser West Perry Cumberland Valley Cumberland Valley

2000

 Cumberland Valley Elizabethtown Cumberland Valley Conrad Weiser and West Perry (Tie)

1999

 West Perry Cumberland Valley East Pennsboro Conrad Weiser

1998

 Elizabethtown West Perry Elizabethtown Cumberland Valley

1997

 Ephrata West Perry Elizabethtown Annville-Cleona

1996

 Cumberland Perry AVTS Elizabethtown and West Perry (Tie)   Annville-Cleona

1995

 West Perry Cumberland Valley Cumberland Perry AVTS Ephrata

1994

 Cumberland Valley Hempfield West Perry Cumberland Valley

1993

 Cumberland Valley Cumberland Valley Lower Dauphin Lebanon

1992

 Cumberland Valley Lebanon Shippensburg West Perry

1991

 Elizabethtown Bishop McDevitt Lower Dauphin Bishop McDevitt
1990 Bishop McDevitt West Perry Red Land Bishop McDevitt
1989 West Perry Elizabethtown Cumberland Valley Bishop McDevitt
1988 Hershey Hempfield Cumberland Valley West Perry
1987 Elizabethtown Red Land Cumberland Valley Hempfield
1986 Solanco Central Dauphin York Suburban Cumberland Valley
1985 Solanco Cumberland Valley Mechanicsburg Central Dauphin
1984 Red Land Lower Dauphin Camp Hill Mechanicsburg
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