Hello Codforks!

The 2025 Harker Programming Invitational (HPI) will take place on Saturday March 8, 2025. This year, the theme of our contest will be CS & Economics.

Teams of up to 3 students may participate in either our Novice (10 problems) or Advanced Division (12 problems) in a 2-hour contest round with USACO-style problems. We will also be awarding prizes to top contestants. There will be no entry fee.

The main contest will be hosted in-person at the Harker Upper School for middle and high school students, but an online mirror will be set up for each division.

Sign up here!

The details of this year's event are listed below:

• Date: March 8, 2025 (Saturday)
• Time: 8 AM-12:30 PM PST
• • 8:00-8:30: Registration
• • 8:30-10:30: Contest
• • 10:30-10:45: Break
• • 10:45-11:30: Panel Session
• • 11:30-12:00: Break
• • 12:00-12:30: Awards Ceremony

• Participants: High school and middle school students

• Location: The Harker Upper School campus (500 Saratoga Ave, San Jose, CA 95129)
• Prizes: $100 gift card per person for top-scoring team in each division, additional prizes for other placing teams

Problems were written and prepared by Rowlet1, 26brennar, Insert_Username_Here, noodlesoodles, shsh, TheYashB, belani, n27k, ranmeow, alex.huangf, elliezhou, sushithor, trappertwo.

Hello Codeforces!

We would love to invite female and nonbinary-identifying students to our annual Girls Programming League (GPL) Challenge. The GPL Challenge is a half-day event comprising a programming contest, panel discussion, and awards. This year the theme of our contest will be CS & Astronomy. The competition will provide students with the opportunity to solve creative programming problems in either a novice or advanced division, while the panel discussion aims to give insight into the current state of the field from female perspectives. Teams can consist of 1-3 members, and the winning teams will receive awards of up to $100 per team member. Please register at tinyurl.com/gpl2024signup! The problems will be uploaded to Codeforces Gym shortly after the contest.

Our speakers this year include:

• Dr. Monica Valluri, Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy
• Dr. Maggie Lieu, Senior research fellow in machine learning and cosmology at the University of Nottingham
• Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and TED fellow
• Katelyn Sweeney, SpaceX on Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell program

The details of this year's event are listed below:

• Event Name: Girls Programming League Challenge 2024
• Date: September 21, 2024 (Saturday)
• Time: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM PDT (UTC -7)
• Participants: High school and middle school female and non-binary students
• Location: Zoom (virtual)

Problems were written and prepared by Rowlet1, 26brennar, Insert_Username_Here, noodlesoodles, shsh, TheYashB, belani, n27k, ranmeow, alex.huangf, elliezhou, sushithor, trappertwo.

Thank you, on behalf of the Harker Programming Club Officers