Perspectives on Computer Science Competitions
for (High School) Students

Workshop, January 22-27, 2006, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany

Schedule

Sunday, Jan. 22

Arrivals; Dinner at 18:00

Monday, Jan. 23

9:00 - 10:00
Plenary Session: Introduction

Round table meeting with overview of the workshop and introduction of participants.

10:30 - 12:00
Paper Session 1: The Contest Landscape 1

Wolfgang Pohl (1)
Gordon Cormack et al. (1)
Raewyn Boersen, Margot Phillipps

13:30 - 15:00
Paper Session 2: The Contest Landscape 2

Valentina Dagiene
Willem van der Vegt

16:00 - 17:30
Paper Session 3: Analysis 1

M. Forisek
B. Yakovenko

19:30
Come together

Tuesday, Jan. 24

9:00 - 10:30
Paper Session 4: Analysis 2

Gordon Cormack
Tom Verhoeff

11:00 - 12:30
Paper Session 5: Suggestions 1

Maryanne Fisher, Anthony Cox
Hong Wang, Baolin Yin

14:00 - 15:30
Paper Session 6: Suggestions 2

Gordon Cormack et al. (2)
Martins Opmanis
Wolfgang Pohl (2)

16:00 - 18:00
Panel Discussion

Panelists:
Krzysztof Diks, Warsaw Univ., Chairman IOI 2005
Zide Du, ICT Beijing, President of IOI
Miguel Revilla, Univ. de Valladolid, ACM-ICPC steering committee
Igor Urbiha, Zagreb Polytechnic, Pres. Croatian OI, IOI 2007

19:30 - 21:00
Presentation: Grading Systems

SIO.NET, Poland
OWINF, Germany

Wednesday, Jan. 25

All Day:
Working Groups

Every workshop participant is required to join and actively take part in a working group. The groups will debate and produce written recommendations. Topics may be suggested by the participants; a group requires three parties at least. We suggest the following topics:

How To Make Computer Science Contests Popular (with Girls, Teachers, and Everyone Else)
How To Be Scientific, Fair, etc.: New Suggestions for Tasks and Grading Within and Beyond Automated Testing
How To Do Computer Science Contests for Everyone: New Contest Approaches

Thursday, Jan. 26

9:00 - 10:30
Plenary Session

Working Groups: Status Report

11:00 - 12:30, 14:00 - 18:00
Working Groups

19:30 - 21:00
Plenary Session

Working Groups: Final Report and Discussion

Friday, Jan. 27

9:00 - 10:00
Plenary Session

Delivery of Working Group Documents, Closing Discussion and Remarks