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==List of Computer Science Competitions==
 
==List of Computer Science Competitions==
  
*[[Beestar Computer Science]]: Digital Literacy & Computational Thinking, and Weekly Challenges, 5th - 8th Students
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* [[USACO|United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO)]]. See here for more resources: [[USACO Problems and Solutions]], https://usaco.org/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America_Computing_Olympiad
 
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* [[Beestar Computer Science]]: Digital Literacy, Computational Thinking, Weekly Challenges, Grades 5 - 8
*United States of America Computing Olympiad: http://usaco.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America_Computing_Olympiad
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* More competitions can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_science_competitions
 
 
*More Competitions can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_science_competitions
 
  
 
==What happens at a Computer Science Competition?==
 
==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 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.
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In other computer science competitions, such as the USACO, individuals write code to solve a test centered around algorithms and maths.
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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 USACO, individuals write code to solve a test centered around algorithms and maths.