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| 2024-25 CS Calendar | ||
| Sep 1 – Oct 31 | UIL | LASA UIL Practice Contest |
| Sept 6-8 | CTF | CSAW CTF occurs over two rounds: a Qualifying Round in September and a Final Round November. |
| Oct 1 -31 | CodeBot Haunted Code competition | |
| Oct 25 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Round 1 |
| Nov 15 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Round 2 |
| Nov 16-22 | CTF | iCTF the International Capture the Flag Competition |
| Dec 9-15 | Hour of Code Interested in having UTCS host an Hour of Code at Your School |
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| Dec 1-25 | Advent of Code 2024 | |
| Dec 13 | Friday | Cyberpatriot State Round |
| Jan 11 | Sat UIL | LASA @ Indeed (hosted by LASA @ Indeed) (Written 9am, Hands-on 10:15am) |
| Jan 24 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Semifinals |
| Jan 23 | Thurs | NACLO @ LASA 8:30am-noon (hosted by LASA) |
| Jan 27 | Sat UIL | Round Rock UIL (Written 1:30pm, Hands-on 3pm) |
| Feb 15 | Sat UIL | The Summit Byte Battle (Written 9am, Hands-on 10:15am) |
| Mar 1 | Sat UIL | Westwood (Written 1pm, Hands-on 3pm) |
| Mar 13 | Thurs | NACLO Invitational Round |
| Mar ??-?? | CTF | picoCTF |
| Mar ?? | Cyberpatriot National Finals | |
| Apr 5? | Sat UIL | official UIL District Meet (team of 4 students) @ Eastside HS 11:30am Written 1:30 Hands-on |
| Apr 25? | Fri UIL | official UIL Regional Meet (team of 4 students) |
| May ?? | CTF | TJCTF |
| May ?? | UIL | official UIL State Meet (team of 4 students) |
UIL Computer Science
see lasacs.com/uil/
Capture the Flag (CTF)
CTF competitions are a lot of fun and pit teams of 3-5 students against student teams from across the US and the world. Competitions generally focus on the following skills: reverse engineering, cryptography, ACM style programming, web vulnerabilities, binary exercises, networking, and forensics – CTF 101. Getting started gives you some ideas on what to expect. Python Challenge is a CTF like challenge that you can try anytime. Many students compete in teams throughout the year. Students generally form their own teams and register themselves on the CTF’s website.
See US High School Cybersecurity Competitions (LASA is listed on pg 14 as a top performing high school).
NACLO
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad is a contest in the last week of January in which high-school students solve linguistic puzzles. In solving these puzzles, students learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while exercising logic skills. No prior knowledge of linguistics or second languages is necessary. example 1 example 2 NACLO@LASA
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| Jun 3 – 8 | HSCTF 10 | |
| Sept 15-17 | CSAW CTF occurs over two rounds: a Qualifying Round in September and a Final Round November. 8-11. | |
| Oct 1 -31 | CodeBot Haunted Code competition | |
| Oct 20 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Round 1 |
| Nov 3 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Round 2 |
| Dec 1-25 | Advent of Code | |
| Dec 8 | Friday | Cyberpatriot State Round |
| Jan 19 | Friday | Cyberpatriot Semifinals |
| Thur Jan 25 | Thurs | NACLO @ LASA 8:30am-noon (hosted by LASA) |
| Sat Jan 27 | UIL | Round Rock UIL |
| Sat Feb 24 | UIL | Westwood UIL |
| Sat Mar 2 | UIL | Indeed UIL |
| Sat Mar 2 | UIL | Liberty Hill UIL |
| Mar 14 | NACLO Invitational Round | |
| Mar 12-26 | 2024 picoCTF | |
| Mar 15-19 | Cyberpatriot National Finals | |
| Sat Apr 6 | UIL | official UIL District Meet (team of 4 students) @ Eastside HS 11:30am Written 1:30 Hands-on |
| Fri Apr 26 | UIL |
official UIL Regional Meet (team of 4 students) @ Fulshear HS (setup 4pm, Written 5pm, Programming 6pm)Sat Apr 27 Prom |
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Tue May 14 Wed May 15 |
UIL |
official UIL State Meet (team of 4 students) written Tue 1pm WEL 1.316 hands-on Wed WEL 2.306 11am |