UK – Royal Holloway University of London. The Department of Computer Science offers a number of Departmental Undergraduate Scholarships for undergraduates at the start of their university studies. Candidates are eligible to try for a Scholarship by entering the Challenge. All entries will be assessed and the entry or entries judged to be the best will lead to the offer of a Scholarship which will be confirmed upon enrolment for that year.

The Challenge consists of two parts. There are four questions which are designed to test abstract reasoning skills, and there is programming challenge.

RULES AND CONDITIONS
The Scholarship Scheme

The Department of Computer Science offers a number of Departmental Undergraduate Scholarships for undergraduates at the start of their university studies.

All entries will be assessed and the contestant(s) who submitted the entry or entries judged to be the best will be offered a Scholarship(s) which will be confirmed upon enrolment for that year.

There are a limited number of Scholarships available each year. If insufficient entries are made to the Scholarship Challenge at an appropriate level then not all Scholarships will be awarded.

The Department may wish to arrange publicity relating to the winner(s) of the Challenge.

Entry instructions

The Challenge consists of two parts – a test of abstract reasoning skills, and a programming challenge.

You must submit your entry using this on-line form.

You must submit a plain text file with your answers to the four questions.

You must submit a plain text file with the source code of your program. Any of PERL, Java, ANSI C++, ANSI C, and Visual Basic are acceptable languages.

If your program requires several files (Java classes or Basic resource files for instance) the the whole package must be zipped (gzip, tar, winzip etc) into a single file for submission.

Any program submitted must include detailed instructions (in the program code, as comments, or in a README file) for executing the program.

Your entry must be your own work and you must click the box which states that the submission is your own work.

The closing date for entries is Friday 13th June 2008.

Assessment

Submissions will be assessed by the Admissions team of the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London. Your answers to the abstract questions must include enough working so that we can see how you came to your answers. Your program will not just be assessed on correctness and speed. It will also be assessed on coding style and general code quality.

The Department’s judgment of the quality of submissions is final.

The Department cannot be held responsible for any lost, delayed or corrupted entries.

The results will be announced on Monday 7th July 2008 and all contestants will be notified of the results. The names of the winners will be published on the website.

Eligibility

The Challenge is open to any candidate who is considering applying, or has applied, to study Computer Science or a related degree in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Challenge is open to contestants of all nationalities and all countries.

Employees of Royal Holloway, University of London and their families are not eligible to enter this Scholarship Challenge.

Renewal

Only those Scholars who achieve an overall first class mark in their end-of-year examinations for years one and two will be eligible for the renewal of the award in years two and three, when the continuation awards of £500 p.a. will be paid.

The Challenge for 2009-2010 will be advertised very soon.
Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Tel : +44 1784 443421