UCF High School Programming Tournament

Congratulations to The First Academy Team #1 for winning the 40th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament (repeat champion!)! And also to American Heritage School Broward Campus team #3, Timber Creek High School team #1, Doral Academy team #1, and American Heritage School Broward Campus #2 for placing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, respectively!

Congrats to all!

Thanks all for coming and we hope you had a lot of fun!! See everybody next year! Final score can be viewed at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2026.html.

The 16th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition was held today! Congrats to the top 3 in each division!

Division 1
1st: Shiv Sitaram of Stanford Online High School (Redwood City, CA)
2nd: Jason Liu of Doral Academy (Doral, FL)
3rd: Eli Harrison of The First Academy (Orlando, FL)

Division 2
1st: Alexander Braun of AlphaStar Academy (Santa Clara, CA)
2nd: Anshul Raghav of Redmond High School (Redmond, WA)
3rd: Arnav Gupta of Middleton Magnet High School (Tampa, FL)

Full score can be seen at:
Division 1: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2526Online-Div1.html
Division 2: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2526Online-Div2.html

Registration for our online, individual competition that we hold each December in celebration of CS Education Week is now open! All the information for the contest on December 6, 2025 can be found at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/index.php/hspt-online-edition/this-year-s-tournament!

Congratulations to The First Academy Team #1 for winning the 39th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament! And also to Spanish River High School Team #1, Freedom High School Team #1, Doral Academy Team #1, and American Heritage School Broward Campus Team #1 for placing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, respectively! Congrats to all!

Thanks all for coming and we hope you had a lot of fun!! See everybody next year! Final score can be viewed at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2025.html.

The 15th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition was held today! Congrats to the top 3 in each division!

Division 1
1st: Wernher To of Freedom High School (Orlando, FL)
2nd: Eli Harrison (The First Academy, Orlando, FL)
3rd: William Mao of St. Robert Catholic High School (Thornhill, Ontario)

Division 2
1st: Ishaan Garg of American Heritage Schools, Broward Campus (Plantation, FL)
2nd: Ethan Bai of Winter Springs High School (Winter Springs, FL)
3rd: Arnav Shandilya of Westlake High School (Austin, TX)

Full score is available at:
Division 1: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2425Online-Div1.html
Division 2: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2425Online-Div2.html

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Congratulations to Atlantic Community High School Team #1 for winning the 38th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament! And also to The First Academy Team #1, Freedom High School Team #1, American Heritage School Broward Campus #3, and Horizon High School #1 for placing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, respectively! Congrats to all!

Thanks all for coming and we hope you had a lot of fun!! See everybody next year! Final score can be viewed at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2024.html.

For families, friends, teachers, and classmates of high school competition programmers: Tomorrow (March 18) at the 38th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament, we will debut the first ever HSPT Live Stream!

Watch the competition with running commentary from UCF Programming Team members (and maybe a few special guests) on YouTube at https://ucf.pt/hspt-stream, and join the chat!

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38th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament

The 14th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition was held today! Congrats to the top 3 in each division!

Division 1
1st: Martin Palencia (North Broward Preparatory School, Boca Raton, FL)
2nd: Yash Ranjith (Westmont High School, Campbell, CA)
3rd: Eli Harrison (The First Academy, Orlando, FL)

Division 2
1st: Gary Sun (Clear Lake High School, Houston, TX)
2nd: Sharanya Chatterjee (Freedom High School, Orlando, FL)
3rd: Joshua Sevilla (Lecanto High School, Lecanto, FL)

Full score is available at:
Division 1: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2324Online-Div1.html
Division 2: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2324Online-Div2.html

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The 13th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament is over! Congrats to the top 3 in each division!

Division 1
1st: Maria Chrysafis (Stanford Online High School, Saratoga, CA)
2nd: Ksh*tij Teotia (AlphaStar Academy, San Jose, CA)
3rd: Eric Pei (Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY)

Division 2
1st: Eli Harrison (The First Academy, Orlando, FL)
2nd: Yavuz Inan (Reagan High School, San Antonio, TX)
3rd: Sharanya Chatterjeei (Freedom High School, Orlando, FL)

Full score is available at:
Division 1: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/scoreboard/online-div1.html
Division 2: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/scoreboard/online-div2.html

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Today's 13th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition has started!

Scoreboard for each division can be seen as below (note that the public score will "freeze" in the final hour and will be updated after the contest is over).

Division 1: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/scoreboard/online-div1.html
Division 2: https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/scoreboard/online-div2.html

Congratulations to Timber Creek High School Team #1 for winning today's 36th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament! American Heritage School Broward Campus Team #1, Doral Academy Team #1, Bartow High School Team #1, and Trinity Preparatory School Team #4 placed second through fifth, respectively.

Congratulations to all! It was great to have everybody back in person again!

Full score available at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2022.html

Today was the 12th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition! The contest has two divisions.

Congratulations to Elijah Huang of Basis Independent Silicon Valley School (San Jose, CA) for winning Division 1 of the 12th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition held on December 4, 2021! Brian Barak of Timber Creek High School (Orlando, FL) and Saathvik Selvan of American Heritage School Broward (Plantation, FL) for placing 2nd and 3rd, respectively!

Congratulations to Sumedh Vangara of Poolesville High School (Poolesville, MD) for winning Division 2 of the 12th Annual UCF High School Programming Tournament: Online Edition held on December 4, 2021! Yash Ranjith of Westmont High School (Campbell, CA) and Rayhan Zirvi of River Hill High School (Clarkesville, MD) for placing 2nd and 3rd, respectively!

Full scores can be seen at https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2122Online-Div1.html and https://hspt.ucfprogrammingteam.org/hsptFiles/score2122Online-Div2.html