Computer Contests	Wide Area Games
American Computer Science League (ACSL) - organizes monthly computer programming contests and computer science contests for junior and senior high schools world-wide. British Informatics Olympiad - computing competition for schools. Calgary Region Schools' Computer Programming Competition - students from grades 5-12 make original programs in Alberta Logo, Basic, C, and other higher level languages; held yearly in May. File - electronic language international festival. Google Programming Contest - your mission is to write a program that does something interesting with the supplied data set of 900,000 pre-parsed web pages. International Obfuscated C Code Contest - seeks to (dis)honor the most obscure, twisted and obfuscated working C programs. Internet Ray Tracing Competition - an open competition for still images and rendered animations based on announced topics. Internet2 Land Speed Record - established to recognize and publicize outstanding performance achievements in the area of high-performance terrestrial networks.	OpenChallenge - an open challenge for coders. Every three months the results are published under GNU licenses. The winner gets fame, karma, and a cool prize. Programmer Of The Month (POTM) Contest - a contest for programmers that presents a new challenge every 3 or 4 months. Programming Contest Problems Archive - comprehensive collection of programming contest problems. Real McCoy Challenge - an open call for innovations. Every three months the results are published under GNU licenses. The winner gets fame, karma, and a cool prize. SoftBear Shareware - enter the email contest to win shareware for Windows. Enter the snail mail contest to win a Teddy Bear. TopCoder - organizes and hosts online programming competitions designed to objectively assess a coder's ability. USA Computing Olympiad - supports pre-college computing around the world through programming competitions and training materials. Uvarov Bros. Programming Contest (UBPC) - programming contest allowing porgramming in several languages.