The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
2% of the household batteries in the UK are collected for recycling. Councils involved need to step up their efforts to reach their target which is 25% by 2012 and 45% by 2016.
Pesticide usage worldwide has quadrupled over the last 40 years, from an average of 0.5 Kg per hectare in 1961 To 2kg per hectare in 2004!
For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
"A team is always less of me and more of we." And especially if that team is staring at the monitor, with bugs aplenty, and the ocassional growl of an exception that creeps in - Team Work is the way to go! Hands that race over the keyboard, nervous fingers that tug at the mouse, frustrated yells , sudden euphoria, rapid switching of roles from observer to coder and a lot more expressive and evasive emotions - packed in a single event that calls itself, and rightly so, "Code Pairing"! Form an awesome twosome and the keyboard is yours for the taking.
Each team must have 2 members.
Participants will be subjected to a written prelims, which will be a conglomeration of basic C programming, Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms.
Qualifying teams will have to code in pairs for the finale. Coders will switch between mutually exclusive coding sessions where in they would alternate every 20 minutes for their share of the keyboard.
Judging would be based on the simplicity of the design and also on the grounds of time taken to solve the problems given for the event.
If you have an interesting team name, it would help.
