Hello Codeforces!

We would love to invite female and nonbinary-identifying students to our annual Girls Programming League (GPL) Challenge. The GPL Challenge is a half-day event comprising a programming contest, panel discussion, and awards. This year the theme of our contest will be CS & Astronomy. The competition will provide students with the opportunity to solve creative programming problems in either a novice or advanced division, while the panel discussion aims to give insight into the current state of the field from female perspectives. Teams can consist of 1-3 members, and the winning teams will receive awards of up to $100 per team member. Please register at tinyurl.com/gpl2024signup! The problems will be uploaded to Codeforces Gym shortly after the contest.

Our speakers this year include:

• Dr. Monica Valluri, Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy
• Dr. Maggie Lieu, Senior research fellow in machine learning and cosmology at the University of Nottingham
• Dr. Jessie Christiansen, Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and TED fellow
• Katelyn Sweeney, SpaceX on Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell program

The details of this year's event are listed below:

• Event Name: Girls Programming League Challenge 2024
• Date: September 21, 2024 (Saturday)
• Time: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM PDT (UTC -7)
• Participants: High school and middle school female and non-binary students
• Location: Zoom (virtual)

Problems were written and prepared by Rowlet1, 26brennar, Insert_Username_Here, noodlesoodles, shsh, yash_9a3b, belani, n27k, ranmeow, alex.huangf, elliezhou, sushithor, trappertwo.

Thank you, on behalf of the Harker Programming Club Officers