CATH CON 2022

CATH CON is one of the only coding competitions that caters to high school students from around the world, by providing them with a platform to showcase their skills and gauge their performance in an environment similar to that of the most prestigious coding competitions of the world. The competition strives to enhance coding and logical thinking skills among high school students. This is achieved by testing participants with coding challenges that require critical analysis of the question, planning of algorithms, and debugging and optimization of code. Participants develop problem solving skills, which is an essential component of holistic development.

The school hosted CATH CON 2022, the third edition of our High School Hackathon, from 11^th to 14^th August 2022. The event was entirely student-run, with all aspects, ranging from designing and drafting questions, designing the format of competition, configuring platforms, drafting documents, designing and configuring the website, emailing invitations and marketing the event to invigilating rounds and ranking participants, being handled by students of the 11^th grade.

This year, the event was graced by two esteemed Chief Guests: Dr Ajay Bhatnagar, a Managing Director at Applied Materials, who enlightened our participants about the semiconductor industry in the opening ceremony and Mr Avinash Shekhar, the CEO of ZebPay, who provided insight on cryptocurrency in the closing ceremony. ZebPay supported the event by funding INR 20,000 which was used as prize money for our medallists.

The most striking feature of CATH CON 2022, was the introduction of C++ as the third official programming language permitted to be used by participants. Built on the success of Java and Python, our two previously established programming languages, the introduction of C++ was well received, with nearly 30% of submitted codes written in this popular language.

Therefore, after two months of build-up, and four days and six rounds of the competition, we are delighted to report that CATH CON 2022 was a huge success.

CATH CON Website: https://cathcon.cathedralfsa.com/

CATH CON Opening Ceremony: https://youtu.be/5oIrUwxvcaA/

CATH CON Closing Ceremony: https://youtu.be/-gu-S9vlXCo/