Each team of 3 students was given 6 problems to try to solve in 5 hours using one computer following the rules for the ACM programming contests.
Each problem has sets of associated data files and matching output files. Files 1 and sometimes 2 are available to the contestants during the competition. The others are reserved for the judges to test submitted solutions.
Students were given these instructions.
The participating teams came from the following universities:
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus.
University of New Brunswick, St John Campus.
Universite de Moncton , Moncton N.B.
Mount Allison University, Sackville N.B.
Acadia University, Wolfville N.S.
St Marys University, Halifax N.S.
St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish N.S.
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.
The top teams from this competition advance to the next level of competition in Massachusetts. The top two teams solved all 6 problems, and the third place team solved 4 problems. The overall organizer was Laurie Ricker. Arthur Sedgwick was chair of the problems committee and Michael McAllister and Arthur Sedgwick from Dalhousie University were the judges.
The results for the 16 teams are available.
Other recent contests.
Other recent contests.