CodeChef Campus Chapter

Running the Chapter

Once you're ready to get started, we suggest you:

1. Pick a Time and Place for Monthly Meetings
Talk to your members and figure out a good time and a convenient place to meet. Keeping your meeting at the same time and place every month encourages consistency and participation. If you need help securing a place, ask your Faculty Advisor.

2. Plan Your First Meeting
You've got the people, you've go the place, but what are you going to talk about? Go through the sample solutions to some problems on the site. For your first meeting we suggest you spend some time picking one problem, reviewing the algorithm used, and trying to figure out ways to improve it. You can submit solutions to that problem online, to see if your improvements have reduced the execution time. You can also try coding the same algorithm in another programming language.

3. Plan Monthly Meetings
Ideally, your chapter will meet every month. Here are some suggestions for different types of meetings:

• Algorithm Review - review the algorithm used for a contest problem and try to improve on it.
• Open Programming Session - Pick a problem on the site and work together on it as a group. Discuss the approach you are going to take and try implementations in various programming languages.
• Open Discussion - Invite a member, faculty adviser or guest to lead a discussion on a topic of their choice related to computing, this could include: Programming Paradigms, Manual vs. Automated Testing or any other topic.
• Awards Ceremony - After each competition, reward individuals who scored the best from your chapter. We will provide some goodies to distribute.

4. Publicize Your Achievements
Find ways to publicize the achievements of your members including:

• Posting fliers - We'll send you fliers for each contest; post them around campus with the contact information for your campus representative.
• Using campus media - Ask your college website and newspaper to publicize top scorers from your chapter, as well as upcoming events.

5. Grow Your Membership
Your chapter is awesome, you know it, your members know it, but unfortunately no one else does. The next step is to get some more people to join. Try:

• Approaching other student groups - Other students on your campus might share similar interests, especially those from science-oriented clubs. You can ask them if they would want to be a part of the chapter.
• Hold a contest on campus - CodeChef allows you to hold custom intra and inter campus competitions on our platform. For more information on setting up a contest, send us an email

That's it! You're ready to go. Fill in the sign up link form and we'll add you to our list of registered chapters. If you have other questions, please let us know at campus@codechef.com.

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