About

ICPC for Schools is an opportunity for school teams to participate in ICPC regionals competing along with the best college teams from across India. It aims to encourage school students to take up competitive programming and improving their algorithmic programming skills early in school. School teams will be participating alongwith the college teams, competing with them as well.

It was conceived in 2016 by CodeChef in association with Amrita University, Kollam. This year it is being conducted in collaboration with Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore and ABV-IIITM Gwalior.

Format Of The Competition

The competition consists of two rounds.

Online round (Eliminations)

Date: 23rd October 2018 (Tue) Timing: Yet to be announced Contest link: www.codechef.com/ACMIND18

Onsite regional round (Finals)

After the online round, those teams who solve atleast one problem in the online round, will have to select at most 2 regional sites Based on the team’s site selection, performance in the online round and number of slots at each regional site, it will be allotted regional site(s). Dates: ABV-IIITM Gwalior — 16-17 December 2018 Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore — 28-29 December 2018

Certificates And Prizes

• All the teams solving at least one problem in the online round are eligible to receive a participation certificate.
• All the teams attending the regional round will receive a participation certificate and ICPC — CodeChef goodies
• The top team(s)* at each regional site, wins a cash prize, up to INR 20,000.
• Jackpot prize : If a team comes in the top 12% in the onsite regional rank-list among the college and school students, then they get double the eligible cash prize.

The details of the contest as a whole: Timings, contest format and the prizes; can be found here: https://www.codechef.com/icpc/2019/schools