{"id":1083,"date":"2017-01-31T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:21:36","slug":"high-school-computer-science-contests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/high-school-computer-science-contests-2\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Computer Science Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to get kids excited about learning Computer Science?<br \/>\nTake your students to a programming contest.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 They learn teamwork and how to problem solve under pressure.<br \/>\nAlso, they get a chance to dominate the planet.\u00a0 Who doesn&#8217;t like winning?<\/p>\n<p>Check out HP Codewars and Codequest.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mandrillapp.com\/track\/click\/30571680\/www.hpcodewars.org?p=eyJzIjoiczlGeEdVZE1RbS1USHRSUElybXpZU183VzlrIiwidiI6MSwicCI6IntcInVcIjozMDU3MTY4MCxcInZcIjoxLFwidXJsXCI6XCJodHRwOlxcXC9cXFwvd3d3LmhwY29kZXdhcnMub3JnXFxcL1wiLFwiaWRcIjpcIjA3MDQwYzk4MzgxODQ3MjY5NjdhYTU0Y2U3YTQ2ZGI3XCIsXCJ1cmxfaWRzXCI6W1wiN2U2ZmJhZTc2OTgzZDI0ZTViOGEwZDI4NTgxNDJjMjk0ZmVmOGM0NFwiXX0ifQ\">http:\/\/www.hpcodewars.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/us\/who-we-are\/community\/codequest.html\">http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/us\/who-we-are\/community\/codequest.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, ask your local colleges to see if they host a high school contest.<br \/>\nMany college ACM groups host high school programming contests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/cs_cont_list.htm\">A+ Computer Science Contest Dates Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Host your own high school contest.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It is fun and you will be helping out others in your area.<\/p>\n<p>Need help preparing your team for contests?\u00a0 A+ has a ton of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/contestmaterial.htm\">great stuff<\/a> to help.<br \/>\nWant to host a local high school contest?\u00a0 A+ has a ton of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/contestmaterial.htm\">great stuff<\/a> to help.<\/p>\n<p>Email me at <a href=\"mailto:stacey.armstrong@apluscompsci.com\">stacey.armstrong@apluscompsci.com<\/a> and I will help you find a local contest or help you learn how to host one in your area.<\/p>\n<p>Computer Science contests rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to get kids excited about learning Computer Science? Take your students to a programming contest. Why?\u00a0 They learn teamwork and how to problem solve under pressure. Also, they get a chance to dominate the planet.\u00a0 Who doesn&#8217;t like winning? Check out HP Codewars and Codequest. http:\/\/www.hpcodewars.org\/ http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/us\/who-we-are\/community\/codequest.html Also, ask your local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,15,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}