Coding – ECOO

Join us for the ECOO Programming Contest in 2023

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario Coding, ECOO-CS, Events for Students, Special Interest Group #cybersecurity, #hackathon, Capture the Flag, Dr. David Stermole, Dr. Sam Scott, ECOO-CS Programming Contest, front, John Ketelaars, LyonHacks II, MCPT, Valentina Krasteva

The ECOO-CS Programming Contest will return in 2023.

UPDATE: February, 2023
We are in the process of re-building our Programming Contest committee. We are in the process of identifying a new team to write the questions, and are looking for educators who might be interested in sitting on the planning committee to help with arranging regional qualifiers and the final. If you are an OCT who has registered for the mailing list below, watch for an email and survey.

Since 1982, ECOO has hosted an annual programming contest for secondary students. Following a restructuring of the ECOO Board circa 2006, the contest has continued each year through the support of former members of the ECOO-CS special interest group.

For many years, the ECOO Programming Contest has been coordinated and supported annually by Dr. David Stermole and John Ketelaars, together with the assistance of a number of regional coordinators.
During the COVID pandemic pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Valentina Krasteva and her students at MCPT convened an online version of the contest, engaging upwards of 600 students each year.
For the 2022 year, Valentina and her students hosted a Cybersecurity Capture-the-Flag event in February, and a Hackathon event in April.

In recognition of their efforts in supporting and maintaining the continuance of the ECOO-CS Programming Contest, the ECOO Board has nominated and promoted David Stermole and John Ketelaars to ECOO Life Member status.