Hands-On Quantum Software Engineering Contest with Qiskit
This optional team contest invites you to work in groups of up to three people and tackle a series of practical Qiskit-based challenges. From turning specifications into working quantum programs to evaluating and improving results, the activity combines experimentation, problem-solving, and collaboration in a friendly setting. It is a great chance to test your skills, learn from others, and enjoy the engineering side of quantum computing through a hands-on experience.
Specifying quantum behavior, implementing it as a circuit in Qiskit, and validating results through systematic experimentation. Building on the school’s focus on practical QSE skills and quantitative quality evaluation, participants will move quickly from a short guided warm-up to a challenge-driven session that emphasizes correctness, performance, and engineering trade-offs.
Attendees will work through a sequence of increasingly challenging exercises that emphasize translating specifications into working quantum programs and evaluating their behavior through experimentation. Along the way, they will explore how different execution conditions can affect results, practice comparing outcomes to expected baselines, and apply improvement strategies while using straightforward metrics to assess their impact.
The activity blends programming, debugging, empirical analysis, and collaborative decision-making, mirroring how quantum software is developed and assessed in practice, while keeping the atmosphere friendly and engaging.
The time for the activity and the registration procedure will be announced during the school.
