Author: Tim French
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SPAR 5 this weekend!
Hi all, just a reminder that SPAR 5 has been brought forward and is happening this Saturday, June 27, 12-5pm AEST. With just 9 weeks until the ICPC Regional Prelims this is a great opportunity to get your teams together and start practicing. Good luck!
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IMC Sydney’s Launchpad Program applications are now open!
IMC has opened applications for Launchpad 2026: a three-day, highly selective program in Sydney designed for ambitious STEM students graduating in 2028/29. IMC is one of the world’s leading trading firms, powered by a cutting-edge research environment. This program is how they find their best early talent. You’ll work on real problems alongside their traders, researchers,…
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IMC 2026 Contest Report
On Sunday, April 12, the second IMC programming contest had its qualifying round with over 120 students from Australia and New Zealand competing to get to the IMC finals in Sydney. This is an individual 3 hour contest, where each problem has increasingly difficult subtasks. The facing a challenging problem set put together by Parsa…
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SPAR 1 Results, and IMC Prize Pool
Hi all, apologies for the delay. The SPAR 1 results have now been added to the SPAR 2026 page. Congratulations to (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ and Sometimes I Drink Barbecue Sauce In My Nightmares for solving the full set, and huge thanks to Tom Frew who put the set together. Next contest is a sprint on April…
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2026 APAC Results
UNSW and University of Melbourne competed at the Asia Pacific Championships this weekend competing against some of the best coding Universities in the world. The teams did very well with University of Melbourne coming 25th with 7 solves (Bronze Medal) and UNSW Sydney coming 16th with 8 solves (Silver Medal). It was a very challenging…