Mercer University Mercer University Spring Programming Competition
SPRING PROGRAMMING COMPETITION
February 27, 2010
Mercer University

Apprentice Judge Program

For a third year we will offer a program that allows limited student participation in the judging process during the programming contest. Faculty advisors may select a responsibly mature senior student who has previously competed in a similar programming contest to shadow them through the judging process. Our Apprentice Judge Program allows the selected apprentices to participate in some or all of the following activities as mentored/monitored by their faculty sponsor:
  • Work with their faculty sponsor to develop a problem to submit to this competition. This problem must be independent from the problem being submitted by the sponsoring faculty member.
  • Work with their faculty sponsor to develop good test case data sets to be used in judging the problem.
  • As needed, work with the contest's chief judge in making revisions to the problem and test data.
  • During the contest, work with their faculty sponsor in judging problems. Since there is no guarantee that every submitted problem will actually be used at the contest, the apprentice may be helping their faculty sponsor judge someone else's problem.
  • As needed, the apprentice may be asked to perform other official duties during the contest (i.e. handing out problem sets at the beginning of the contest, posting errata in the contest rooms, etc...).

Note to Faculty Sponsors: by signing up an Apprentice Judge, you are stating that you are willing to provide the necessary mentoring before, during and after the contest.
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For more information contact Bob Allen:
allen_r@mercer.edu
478-301-2817