An online coding contest “Sacred Codes” was organized by the Programming Club, Department of Computer Science and Engineering on 28 September 2019 at Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad. Students from all years across all domains of the college had participated in this contest. The main aim of organizing this contest was to facilitate programming skills among students, so they can cater to the demands of IT industry. The contest was organized under the supervision of Mr. Vikas Kamra, Faculty Coordinator, Programming Club and a team of 08 Student Coordinators. The contest was organized on CodeChef Online Programming Platform in two divisions, DIV-I (for 3rd and 4th year students) and DIV-II (for 1st and 2nd year students).

Total number of students registered in the contest: 312 (101 for DIV-I and 211 for DIV-II)
Total number of students appeared in the contest: 99 (26 for DIV-I and 73 for DIV-II)
Total number of students qualified in the contest: 63 (20 for DIV-I and 43 for DIV-II)

Top 02 qualified students from each division were awarded cash prizes of Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/- respectively. Top 15 students from each division were awarded a certificate of excellence.

Overall this online coding contest was beneficial and knowledgeable experience for all the participating students to learn more about computer programming skills and its applications.