The first CS-CAN|INFOCAN Francophone Women in Computing Day is focused on networking, learning, sharing and mentoring. It embodies the mission of encouraging curiosity and awareness of digital innovations that are changing the community and the world around us. The event is held in French and brings together leaders from research, education and education and industry. The one-day event will be attended by over 200 undergraduate and graduate computer science students, with stimulating and inspiring speakers, discussions and networking opportunities.
The event will also include a career fair and hackathon and provides an excellent opportunity for industry to connect with all the students and offers a great opportunity for organizations to easily access the best access to top talent from Quebec’s universities and CEGEPs and assists and supports on-campus recruitment efforts.
Participating Schools*
Collège de Maisonneuve Informatique
Collège de Valleyfield
Concordia University
École de technologie supérieure
Ecole Polytechnique
McGill University
University of Ottawa
Université de Sherbrooke
Université Laval
Université de Montréal
Université du Québec à Montréal
As of January 15, 2023
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The event will be held at McGill University. A venue map to locate meeting rooms can be found on the Schedule page. Students can book accommodations through the McGill University Housing and Conference Services Prices range between $70 and $130
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Programming Competition for female university and CEGEP students in Quebec, we hope to bring together the talents of the province by providing an interactive environment where participants are free to innovate and create under the guidance of mentors.
Why should you consider sponsoring the Programming Competition?
Branding and Marketing
The Programming Competition will reach a large population of Quebec students. Exposing your brand to hundreds of students will put you in the spotlight of the top female developers.
Recruiting and testing the platform
Before, during and after the event, you will have access to a large demographic of technically minded women through custom award categories, conferences and social media. Through these media outlets, you can explore your new and upcoming technologies with female students or have them test your APIs through any form of testing – performance, scalability or otherwise.
This year, Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada (CS-CAN|INFO-CAN will hold its first Francophone Women in Computing Day Programming Competition, open to teams of three students from postsecondary institutions throughout Quebec.
Post-secondary institutions participating in the Women in Computing Day are invited to send a team to the competition.
Players will compete in cybersecurity, programming, and general computing events. No specific knowledge of cybersecurity is required (beginners welcome), however a certain level of knowledge and skill in programming and general computing is expected (undergraduate level).
The competition will take place on site in a dedicated room at McGill University on the afternoon of January 6th, the day before the conference.
Transportation and accommodation will be provided for players from schools and institutions outside the greater Montreal area.
Team composition and eligibility
A team consists of 3 students from the same institution.
There will be TWO teams of 3 students per institution. One undergraduate team and one open team (graduate and undergraduate).
Depending on availability and student interest, please feel free to contact us with any requests or questions.
Tuesday, June 6th. Lunch will be provided Start of the competition: 1:30 pm (approx.) End of the competition: 5:46 pm (approx.) Duration of the competition: 256 minutes
Event and scoring
Each challenge contains a description and resources such as source files or deployed internet services. The objective of each challenge is to find the key (flag) that must be provided to the scoring system for the team to get points. The more difficult a challenge is, the more points it is worth.
At the end of the competition, the team with the most points will be declared the winner. In the event of a tie, the team that scored the last points first will win.
During the competition, new events may be unlocked depending on the progress of the competition or the success of certain events.
Many of the programming events require TCP communication with our servers to validate the solutions and obtain the flags.
It is recommended that you develop and test your solutions locally first. You can familiarize yourself with useful tools like nc (netcat) and socat (or review socket programming).
All participants are required to accept the following basic rules of conduct and courtesy:
Be friendly, welcoming, patient, constructive, respectful and collaborative. The events are conducted and the competition is organized by volunteers whose only goal is to help you have a good time and discover new things in computer science.
Do not attack the scoring system, other teams or anything else outside of the events that clearly state this.
Don’t steal or trade flags or information about solving challenges.
Do not ask for outside help.
Respect the copyright of the event material.
Required equipment
Students must bring a laptop computer with a good battery that can connect to wifi in order to access the events and the scoring system of the competition.
Students will need to be able to install various computer tools and software on their probable.
A Linux environment with standard tools is recommended.
One table will be assigned to each team for the duration of the competition. Good teamwork, good communication and good distribution of tasks is also recommended.
Awards
Two sets of prizes will be awarded, one for the undergraduate teams and one for the open teams.
1st prize: $900 2nd prize: $600 3rd prize: $300
All prizes will be awarded at the prestigious INFO-CAN Award Banquet on June 7th. The winners will be invited to attend the banquet. The banquet will be attended by over 400 faculty and industry representatives.
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