| 8:45am | Students and teachers assemble at their schools and establish contact with the contest director. |
| 9:00am | The programming problem is made available on the contest website; students will have 15 minutes to review the problem and think about what questions they wish to ask. |
| 9:15am | Teachers e-mail "provine@rowan.edu" with the questions asked by their students. |
| 9:25am | Answers to all student questions will appear on the website. |
| 9:30am | Students begin work. |
| 12:00noon | Students stop work; teachers collect programs and submit them to the judges. Competitors can go home at this point; judging is going to take a while. |
