{"id":1379,"date":"2026-07-02T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:27:10","slug":"csc-2026-qualification-participation-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"CSC 2026 Qualification \u2013 Participation Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friendly reminder for both mentors and registered teams to select and confirm participation in the CSC qualification round. The dates below have been pre-selected as preferred dates for institutions to participate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>31 July &#8211; 9 August 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>21 August &#8211; 30 August 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 September \u2013 13 September 2026 (last qualification roun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following qualification dates have been confirmed with the mentor at the respective university:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Akademia: 4-13 Sept<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CUT: 4-13 Sept<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NUST: Participation completed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RU: Participation completed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SPU: 31 July &#8211; 9 Aug 2026 (CSC Introductory session: 21 July)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TUT: 4-13 Sept (CSC Introductory session: 24 July)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UCT CS: 20-29 July<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UCT Eng: 20-29 July<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UJ CS: 24 Aug-2 Sept (CSC Introductory session: 13 July)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UMP: 23 July-1 Aug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UP CS: 4-13 Sept<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UWC: 4-13 Sept<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qualification dates still to be confirmed with the respective university mentor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CPUT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DUT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MUST<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NWU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UJ Eng<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wits Eng<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wits CS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following qualification dates have been confirmed directly with registered teams where there is currently no mentor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Botho: 1-10 July, 31 July-9 Aug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BIUST: 31 July-9 Aug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UB: 31 July-9 Aug, 21-30 Aug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNISA: 4-13 Sept<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VUT: 21-30 Aug<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friendly reminder for both mentors and registered teams to select and confirm participation in the CSC qualification round. The dates below have been pre-selected as preferred dates for institutions to participate: The following qualification dates have been confirmed with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc","category-qualifiers","category-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}