2008 PClassic Results

This year's contest was a huge success. The competition was fierce, and the scores were close. Scores are out of 80 possible points.
Here's the results:

Horace Mann-2	77
Radnor	64
Horace Mann-1	60
Germantown	37
St. Joes Prep	20
Friends Select	17

This year's question set can be downloaded here.

Answers will be available soon.

Pictures from this year's contest are available here and on our Picasa album.
If you require publication-quality copies of the pictures, please email pclassic@gmail.com.

PClassic 2008 Programming Contest

Philadelphia Classic

Our annual programming contest, Philadelphia Classic, is on its way. This year, we plan to hold the contest on either Saturday, February 9th, or Saturday, February 16th, 2008. Are you interested in competing in the contest? Watch this space, and post a comment to let us know of your interest.

The contest is a day long contest at the University of Pennsylvania. High schools can submit teams of 4 students who will compete to answer 8 programming questions.

All Philadelphia-region high schools are invited.

Join the Android Challenge!

CIS students,

I wanted to draw your attention to a new contest Google is sponsoring. In the past couple of days, you may have heard of the Google mobile phone “operating system”. Although Google isn’t coming out with the GPhone just yet, they’ve created a platform that is going to be launched on mobile devices from many manufacturers, on several carriers.

The platform is called “Android” and it’s based on Java. It uses familiar technologies, like SQL and some C/C++ libraries along with newer device capabilities like 3G, Bluetooth, cameras and GPS. The platform is easy to use and develop in, and it really gives a lot of flexibility.

We thought that Penn CIS students might be interested in this new contest. Google is giving away prizes ranging from $20,000 all the way to $275,000 for applications that use the Android SDK. Many entries will be eligible for prizes, and you can get some major publicity from Google.

You download the SDK, develop a program, and submit it by March 3, 2008. A panel will review your entry, and hopefully award prizes!

Ars Technica (a great tech blog) has a great write-up about the contest available at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071112-google-announces-10-million-contest-for-android-devs-early-look-sdk.html

Additionally, the Google press release is available: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071112_android_challenge.html

I hope some of you can enter into this contest and show off your skills. Who knows – maybe a fellow Penn engineer will develop the next big cell phone app – bigger than Snake, even.