The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Teams of three, representing their university, work to solve the most real-world problems, fostering collaboration, creativity, innovation, and the ability to perform under pressure. Through training and competition, teams challenge each other to raise the bar on the possible. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. More about ICPC...
The Northeast North America region consists of colleges and universities throughout Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York State excluding New York City. Ivona Bezakova ( ib@cs.rit.edu) is currently serving as the contest director for the Northeast NA region.
Multiple teams per university are welcome to compete in this single NENA competition, and the top teams (at most one team per university) will advance to the next competition round, the North America Championship (NAC), which selects the teams that will represent North America at the World Finals. The NENA competition will be held in a distributed format this year, see below for more specifics.
This year our contest will be on Saturday, February 25, 2023. NENA will held simultaneously at several sites, with details here. We do not expect to use micro-sites this year unless there are exceptional circumstances.
The contest itself will be run through Kattis. We will provide a practice session in the week prior to the regional competition. Please ensure that you register with accurate email addresses so that we can contact you with the relevant details when the time comes.
Tentative contest schedule (the times may move by one hour or so, but the contest will definitely be five hours long):
Registration (deadline Feb 17): There is a registration fee of US$100 per team. If this fee amount is beyond your university's budget, the coach may contact the Regional Contest Director to request a reduced amount. This fee also includes T-shirts and lunch at the host site for the team and coach. This deadline is set to ensure proper Kattis contest setup for your team(s) (we might be able to add your team(s) after the deadline - please contact us asap if you missed the deadline).
| Registration Deadline | Practice Date | Contest Date |
|---|---|---|
| February 17, 2023 | February 23 (tentative) | February 25, 11:00 AM EST |
Coaches from each university must register their teams following the instruction on the ICPC Site.
Number of teams per university this year may be limited as required by the sites, but we will aim for at least three teams per unversity to be allowed.
