Looking back, dated two days after the competition.
Three of us, one day in Jena: the computer science team competition
Our team of three from Erfurt won the computer science team competition of Thuringia's specialised STEM schools. A short note, because I only write down what I can back up.
On 28 November 2023 three of us went from Erfurt to Jena and came back with first place.
The event is the computer science team competition of Thuringia’s specialised STEM schools, for grades 10 to 12. The Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium in Jena hosted it. We were the team of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Erfurt, three students, and I was one of them.
That is most of what I can say with a certificate behind it, so I keep this post short on purpose.
What I can add is the context. At my school I was in the computer science excellence programme, which meant extra lessons in algorithms and data structures on top of the normal timetable. In the same months I was working on the homework round of the Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, alone, at my desk, over weeks. The team competition was the opposite: one day, three people, and you have to split the work before you have fully understood the tasks.
That is what the format trains: algorithms as a team, and dividing work under time pressure. Both came back later in every hackathon I went to.
The same school year went on with a first prize in round one of the Bundeswettbewerb Informatik and with Jugend forscht. This was the first result of that year.