| Programming Contest Rules 
 
                  
                    To be eligible to participate, each student must be enrolled 
          
          in the college for which he/she is competing. 
                     
                  
During 
                    the contest the following rules will be enforced: 
              
      
                    
                      There 
                      
  will be volunteers available via a chat mechanism, who will 
                        aid in answering 
questions involving the contest system 
                        and will see that the contest rules 
are enforced.  
                        
                      
                      
                      Contestants 
                        are allowed to utilize any printed 
materials, 
                        including information packets, sample programs 
and textbooks. 
                        Calculators are also permitted.   
                        
                      
                    
Judges 
                    for the contest 
will be members of the Consortium for Computing 
                    in Small Colleges. The 
procedures for submitting and judging 
                    problems are outlined on a separate 
document.  
                    
                  Teams 
                    will be 
ranked according to the number of problems solved 
                    correctly. Ties will be 
broken on the basis of the time required 
                    to finish and the number of judged 
runs.
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