United Statebris Computing Olympiad (USACO)

Overview

Starting in the Dec/2014, Storming Robots encourage our roboclub students also participate in the USA Computing Olympiad online contest. 

USACO is the one of the most prestigious pre-college Computer Science Contests. Do well in USACO online contests serves a good indicator of one's ability in algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills. USA Teams from USACO have regularly placed among the top countries attending the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) . IOI is the most prestigious international computing contest at the high school level.

DO NOTE: USACO contests take place more like an online exam with a list of open challenge for computer science students taken place every year with one contest per month from December to April. Visit USACO official site for details such as entrance to the IOI. This is very different from any other contests. Students can sign up at any of the exams, and are encouraged to continuously take as many as you can every year.

Majority of our Algorithms in C/C++ Level II students with high proficiency advanced to Silver. Many of them also advanced to Gold after they reached Level III with high proficiency.

USACO students circle - Practice Group

This is a Students-Driven group which meet once every two weeks to work on USACO problems collaboratively. The meetings are at no cost to SR students. Meetings are led by one of our advanced students, Brian Gan. This is NOT a class.

Group leader: Brian Gan.

Brian, a USACO Gold level achiever, has been at SR as both computer science and robotics student since he was in early middle school. He has a deep passion in problem solvings. Brian took the initiative to start this group and hope to further increase the interest and strength in algorithmic programming. ”

Advisor: Elizabeth Mabrey (Director of Storming Robots)

First meeting: Nov 13th - from 4:30 to 5:30
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Friday.

Prerequisites: Algorithms in C/C++ - II (almost at the completion with proficiency), love problem solving and open discussion.

If you have met the prerequisites, please  email Us to acquire for meeting link.