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From our friends at TeamsCode! The Seattle team at Def Hacks (defhacks.io) is hosting the third annual 24-hour hackathon at Microsoft HQ on April 13th-14th (see Def_Hacks_Seattle_Flyer) . The hackathon is an MLH Member Event, and has a strong emphasis on FinTech as Even (evenfinancial.com) is a sponsor and co-host. We will have mentors and recruiters from multiple companies, free meals and snacks, lots of swag, and over $2,000 in prizes! If you’re interested, learn more at defhacks.io/hackathons/seattle, apply by…

The time has come for TeamsCode to host its fifth biannual programming contest at Mercer Island High School. This contest is a great opportunity for students to learn and compete in a Computer Science competition. There will be an Intermediate and Advanced division. The rules of the competition are on the TeamsCode website and are very similar to those of the PSCSTA competitions. There will be free food and free prizes. The date is set for March 16, 2019, and…

TeamsCode is hosting their third biannual MIHS Programming Contest for interested Middle and High school students on March 31st (at Mercer Island High School near Seattle). You can find out more about the contest here and their past events at or you can view the flyer. They are also in need of judges that would help score each team’s solutions to their problems. Please contact Alan and Chris through their website for more information.

This just in: The Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is hosting it’s 8th annual High school programming contest on Saturday, 2/10/2018. Registration will open early January (most likely the 8th). Please see their contest site for more details (https://www.plu.edu/computer-science/hs-prog-contest/).

The PSCSTA Winter 2017 programming contest is a wrap! This contest was unique in a number of ways. Although we had our typical programming and pizza, with approximately 260 students from 105 teams (23 teams from Bellevue and 10 from Issaquah), we had the highest number schools represented in our eight year history, with teams from as far away as Orting and Ellensburg. Also, in addition to our usual T-shirt distribution, every student received a rubber duck to help with…

Bryan Lim and Preston Lee are two students in the PNW region who are organizing the BAPECA competition—Bryan and Preston’s Excellent Coding Adventure. This competition will take place on Sunday, December 17th at Issaquah Arena Sports (2115 NW Poplar Way, Issaquah, WA). It will feature a PSCSTA-style programming contest as well as an efficiency question where teams are given 45 minutes to achieve the most efficient solution to a problem. For more details, visit https://bapeca.github.io/. The BAPECA competition also needs volunteers for judging! If you…

PSCSTA is sponsoring another CS Club Contest. Here is their email announcement: We are excited to announce that Skyline High School will be hosting a programming competition on November 11th! It will be similar to competitions such as PSCSTA and MIHS. More information can be found on our website, at http://spartanprogrammingcompetition.weebly.com/ You can register using this link. Please only register only once per team. We will have prizes for the winning teams and will feature a keynote speaker who has…

News from TeamCode.com: The Fall 2017 MIHS Programming Contest takes place on October 21st from 9:30 to 3:30. Just like in our last event in April, students can choose between the Intermediate and Advanced divisions and will have three hours to complete as many of the fifteen challenging coding problems as they can. Food and snacks are provided, and at the end of the contest, the winning teams will receive medals and all participants will have a chance to win…