UTD-DFWCSTA Battle of the Brains - Conference & Contest - Fall 2025

Thanks to our continuing sponsor State Farm for enabling us to offer this contest for FREE to school students & college students.

While any one / team can complete ONLINE, prizes will be given only for the high school student groups registered through CS teachers of respective schools & compete in-person with teacher in-attendance.

Schedule for the day @ https://utd.link/hspc-schedule

School teachers should register their teams @ https://utd.link/hspc-reg (register IN-PERSON teams only, No need to register teams that will compete ONLINE). Teachers have to validate the team names on that day, for the teams to qualify for prizes. Each team can have max 3 members.

Languages supported: C, C++, Java, Python, and Kotlin
IDEs: Eclipse, VS Code, Code Blocks, and MS Visual Studio (online IDEs may be OK as well)

Actual Contest will run 1-4pm. You can setup the teams now, join the contest now and get ready.

Contest site for VIRTUAL attendees ONLY (IN-PERSON teams will get a different link).

Recent contests:
Spring 2025
https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-spring-2025-virtual

Fall 2024 Advanced: [https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-fall-2024](https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hackerrank.com%2Futd-bob-fall-2024&data=05%7C02%7Cjeyv%40utdallas.edu%7C9db5b859ee7a4a3f73c808dcf4af2c4f%7C8d281d1d9c4d4bf7b16e032d15de9f6c%7C0%7C0%7C638654280412822780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kDnKfucjEY5pKmfaxC4iS0FDpBviLnLTJ6S54gFEftQ%3D&reserved=0)
Fall 2024 Novice: [https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-fall-2024-novice](https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hackerrank.com%2Futd-bob-fall-2024-novice&data=05%7C02%7Cjeyv%40utdallas.edu%7C9db5b859ee7a4a3f73c808dcf4af2c4f%7C8d281d1d9c4d4bf7b16e032d15de9f6c%7C0%7C0%7C638654280412843365%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u6K33feDHLuz3IUQjQlmB7K2Gfpf4MO0FewDsxY6dlY%3D&reserved=0)
Fall 2024 problem discussion
Spring 2024 Novice: [www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-spring-2024-novice](https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hackerrank.com%2Futd-bob-spring-2024-novice&data=05%7C02%7Cjeyv%40utdallas.edu%7Cce80275a26284224d63908dc584427c2%7C8d281d1d9c4d4bf7b16e032d15de9f6c%7C0%7C0%7C638482296955095992%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Bm8nS8Fa1b3OlCRYXAKEQ1WSWNlenv1CT4JMKqZsJL8%3D&reserved=0)
Spring 2024 Advanced: [www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-spring-2024](https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hackerrank.com%2Futd-bob-spring-2024&data=05%7C02%7Cjeyv%40utdallas.edu%7Cce80275a26284224d63908dc584427c2%7C8d281d1d9c4d4bf7b16e032d15de9f6c%7C0%7C0%7C638482296955104961%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uyl8cfuLwui%2BnYKIcrsKzVOzpqFEnjiANd%2BX2ASWNoY%3D&reserved=0)
Fall23 Advanced: https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-fall-2023
Fall23 Novice: https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-fall-2023-novice
Solutions' discussion: https://utdallas.box.com/s/kqosepznzsb0qub58alobo62n1uja2q6

Spring 2023 Advanced: https://www.hackerrank.com/bob2023spring
Spring 2023 Novice: https://www.hackerrank.com/utd-bob-2023-spring-novice
Solution discussion & Award ceremony recording: https://utdallas.box.com/s/jpa9ey8lrv9udw0vuyob2of0m3gkbobt

Fall 2022 Advanced: https://open.kattis.com/contests/mnhex8
Discussion about solutions: https://utdallas.box.com/v/f22-advanced-discussion

Fall 2022 Novice: https://open.kattis.com/contests/yfsuio
Discussion about solutions: https://utdallas.box.com/v/f22-novice-discussion

Fall 2021 Advanced: https://open.kattis.com/contests/vm8cd3
Fall 2021 Novice: https://open.kattis.com/contests/nkom6r

Custodial Responsibility Disclaimer: The University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science department will not take custodial responsibility of minors while participating in this coding contest. Custodial responsibility will remain with teachers (K-12), parents, legal guardians, and chaperones, for the whole duration of the contest.