As we bury our memories of the exams deep under the sea, 🌊 and distract ourselves with activities of no academic relevancy, 🎮 Or as we thank our first-semester teachers with something fancy 🎁 and try to buy the favours of semester 2 teachers with some fine courtesy... 🙏

The day of the CCC is coming soon with its adjacency! Which gives all the more reason for you to be participating in this Friday's LCC!

The last LCC before CCC is being held on this Friday the 10th from 5 to 7:30 PM. Don't miss your last chance to get some competitive programming practice before the CCC!

Looking for something to do over the winter break in your pa-jam-as? We’ve got you covered!

MCPT will be holding a game jam from December 26th at noon until the 30th at 11:59 PM (for a total of 108 hours)!! Participants will create a game based on a theme and prepare a pitch to submit to our judges. During the 5 days, workshops will be held to help students with game development and any other questions if they get into a sticky situation. There will be many prize categories and the winning teams will be able to earn a special something! Additionally, there will be multiple activities and games hosted for participants to have some fun! :blobbusiness:

To participate you must sign up in a team of 1-4 (must be a student attending WLMAC) by Sunday December 25 @ 11:59 PM using the following form:

https://mcpt.ca/gamejam

Need a brrrreak from the winter weather? 🥶 That's snow problem. ❄️ Why not settle down with a nice cup of hot cocoa and focus on a nice winter-themed LCC instead?

The third Lyon's Computing Competition (LCC) of the year will be coming up this Thursday (December 22) at 5pm to 7:30pm! In case you forgot, it is a team programming competition with both a junior and a senior division for Mackenzie students.

A reminder that in order to write the CCC, you must participate in at least 2 LCCs, and if you're in a new team, make sure to sign up with the link below by 11:59pm tomorrow. As this form is only for new teams, existing teams cannot be changed.

https://mcpt.ca/lcc/signup

Vroom vroom 🛷 - Santa and his reindeer’s have pulled over to deliver amazing news! 🎅

MCPT hoodie orders are back again for the ‘22-’23 school year. The following form to order will be open until Thursday, December 22, 11:59 PM, so make sure you don’t miss it!

https://mcpt.ca/hoodies/

All designs will be embroidered and you will also have the option to have a name personalization on the back of the hoodie.

P.S. After pulling some strings we can tell you that your hoodies will cost less when more people order - so make sure to tell your friends!

Have you fallen in love with our contests? 🍂 Are you pining for another one? 🌲 Well then, you won't beleaf what will be happening this week. 😱

The second Lyon's Computing Competition (LCC) of the year will be coming up this Thursday (November 24) from 5pm to 7:30pm! In case you forgot, LCC is a team programming competition with both a junior and a senior division for Mackenzie students.

A reminder that in order to write the CCC, you must participate in at least 2 LCCs. If you're in a new team, make sure to sign up with the link below by Nov 22 @ 11:59pm.

https://mcpt.ca/lcc/signup

Want to know how websites work behind the scenes?

Join us for our second part of our two-part web development workshop this Thursday, November 10 at lunch in room 222, where you will get to learn about backend development! We will covering what backend is, what backend developers do, how URLs work, and how to code the logic behind websites in JavaScript.

Interested in learning how to create your own website?

MCPT will be holding part 1 of the two part web development workshop series starting this Thursday, November 3 in room 222. This week will be focused on front end components while part 2 will look at the back end.

You'll be learning about making a webpage using HTML and CSS, how to create a navigation bar, basic syntax, as well as a showcase of a pre-made demo.

Make sure you attend both parts of the series to gather as much info as you can!

Psst.. I heard there is a rumour going on that LCC is starting very soon.

They said that you and your friends are especially invited to join LCC on Oct 27th after school from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. If I were you, I'd take up that invitation!

The Lyon's Computing Contest (LCC) is a team programming contest hosted throughout the year by MCPT. You and a team of up to 4 will be solving 5 programming problems, starting from the easiest to the most difficult. Everybody is welcome to join, regardless of skill level. There are two divisions: junior for those newer to programming, and senior for teams looking for a real challenge. Whether you're looking for a memorable experience with friends, looking for extra prep for CCC, or wanting to scratch that competitive itch, LCC has got you covered.

Interested? Sign up your team by Tues, Oct 25th:

https://mcpt.ca/lcc/signup

NOTE: To write the CCC (Canadian Computing Competition) hosted by the University of Waterloo in February, you must participate in at least 2 LCCs. Only Mackenzie students are allowed to participate in the LCC.

Did you guys hear something? Because MCPT is back and running again!

Next Tuesday (October 4th) and Thursday (October 6th), MCPT will be holding an introductory information session during lunch in room 222 for the events we’ll be hosting this year, contests like CCC where you can showcase your competitive programming skills, as well as our very amazing and talented branches of MCPT (communications, competitive, learning, mentorship, and judge).

Everyone is welcome to join so see you there!

(P.S. Tuesday and Thursday’s meeting will be the same, so if you can’t pop in on one of the days you can come by on the other day)

We’re delighted to announce that MCPT is back and in person for the 2022-2023 school year!

As one of the largest clubs at WLMAC with more than 150 members, MCPT has always been dedicated to furthering the knowledge of computer science, be it through competing in programming competitions, promoting software development projects through hackathons, or hosting mentorship sessions for ICS help. In a nutshell, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to break into CS.

Stay tuned for a meeting soon where we’ll give general information about the club and present some of the events that we plan on hosting this year! In the meantime, you can visit this link for a list of the main platforms that we’ll be using this year.