Official STEM competition of the United States House of Representatives. Online competition where you make an app and create a video about it.

Location: Virtual

Date: November 1, 2022

Expenses: $0

Awards:

- $500 in AWS Credits

- Free Trip to Capitol Hill

- Meet Representative John Sarbanes

The NASA Space Apps Competition is an international hackathon comprised of hundreds of small local hackathons. For Space Apps, competitors pick one of many problems, and design a solution in any programming language they want.

Location: Virtual

Date: October 1, 2022

Expenses: $0

Awards: Recognition from NASA

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, practice problems, or to challenge each other. We will be having a club leaderboard to compete with each other.

Location: Online

Date: December 1, 2021 - December 25, 2021

Expenses: $0

The UMD High School Programming Contest is a 3 hour competition where high school students from the DC metropolitan area compete in teams of four to demonstrate their programming skills and problem solving abilities.

Location: Virtual

Date: February 23, 2022

Expenses: $0

Awards: Gannon Prize and Certificates

The PicoCTF Competition is a Capture the Flag cyber security competition. In a CTF, teams compete to locate the "flag" in various challenges. For example, last year flags were hidden in Audio Files, remote linux servers, and image metadata.

Location: Virtual

Date: March 16, 2022

Expenses: $0

Awards: 1st place: $6,000 + paid trip to CMU!