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==List of Computer Science Competitions==
  
== International Computer Science Competitions ==
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*[[Beestar Computer Science]]: Digital Literacy & Computational Thinking, and Weekly Challenges, 5th - 8th Students
* [[International Olympiad in Informatics]] [http://www.ioinformatics.org/ website]
 
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* [[American Computer Science League]] [http://www.acsl.org/ website]
 
  
* [[TopCoder.com]] [http://www.topcoder.com/tc website]
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*United States of America Computing Olympiad: http://usaco.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America_Computing_Olympiad
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== National Computer Science Competitions ==
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*More Competitions can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_science_competitions
=== United States ===
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* [[United States Computing Olympiad]] [http://www.usaco.org/ website]
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==What happens at a Computer Science Competition?==
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In some computer science competitions, teams or individuals are judged on their ability to solve a real world problem using code. These are known as hackathons.
* [[Google Code Jam]] [http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=google06&d2=overview website]
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'''Computer Science Competitions''' are compeitions that can test the knowledge of different computer science topics, or more commonly, being able to write programs that solve a given problem.
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In other computer science competitions, such as the USA Computing Olympiad, individuals write code to solve a test centered around algorithms and math.

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List of Computer Science Competitions

What happens at a Computer Science Competition?

In some computer science competitions, teams or individuals are judged on their ability to solve a real world problem using code. These are known as hackathons.

In other computer science competitions, such as the USA Computing Olympiad, individuals write code to solve a test centered around algorithms and math.