Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsors regional and international collegiate programming contests . They divide the world up into 16 regions. Each region has a regional contest, with the top two or three teams in each region going on to the international contest.
Since 1991, the ACM Hong Kong Chapter has been organizing a local contest in Hong Kong, following the ACM contests in terms of aims, format, and style. This year, the Programming Contest is confirmed to be held on 16 July (Sat), 2011 at the Caritas Institute of Higher Education & Caritas Bianchi College of Careers. Teams have been invited from the tertiary institutes in Hong Kong and Macau: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The City University of Hong Kong, The Lingnan University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Baptist University, The Open University of Hong Kong, The University of Macau, and Macau University of Science and Technology. Each department of a participating institution can nominate any number of teams to take part in the contest.
Last year, the Collegiate Programming Contest was held on June 12, 2010 at the Caritas Francis Hsu College and Caritas Bianchi College of Careers.
For more contest information (problem set), you can download contest '94 , contest '95 , contest '98 , contest '00 , contest '01 , contest '02 or the contest '03 .