USACO Bronze, Silver and Gold Level Training Will Start in April

Sherry Wang

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Mar 25, 2021, 2:08:14 AM3/25/21

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The United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO) is a national computer science contest for pre-college students. There are 4 divisions: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. There are 4 contest opportunities each year.
Participants begin at the Bronze level and are promoted to the next division if they do well. Each contest has 3 problems. You may take it at home at any time during the 4-day window. This contest is great for preparing for the Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) course in high school and improving applications for college.

不像其他奥赛一年只有一次竞赛，学生们往往需要从最初级开始往上层层突破，美国计算机奥赛USACO 一年共有4次比赛，参与即被认定为铜级，一旦升级至银, 金，白金等任何一级，就可以一直保持继续向前考，甚至连续升级。而且，USACO比赛人数也较少，每次全美都只有数千人参加；不像其他奥赛通常有10%的过线的限制，USACO只要达到一定的分数线，就都可以出线，相对得奖比例和几率都很高。USACO的学习不仅对APCS的考试，更是对大学申请有很大的加分作用。

SpringLight Education started USACO training since 2013. Our students received great results on USACO at all levels including finalists. Some of them had been admitted into many top colleges like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CalTech, Harvey Mudd, UC Berkeley and more other colleges.

Most of the students who attended our USACO training classes and finished the homework qualified the next level like silver, gold level and platinum. Many of them got 1000 the perfect scores.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all of our classes are online via Zoom.
Students can interact with the instructor during class.

We record all of the classes and send the video to students for makeup and review.


Class	Date	Time	Price	Class Day	Teacher
USACO Bronze	4/2-6/4, 2021	4:00pm-6:30pm	$950/10 lessons $100/lesson	Fridays	Mr. Huang
USACO Silver	4/3-6/5, 2021	6:30pm-9:00pm	$950/10 lessons $100/lesson	Saturdays	Chris
USACO Gold	4/10-6/12, 2021	1:00pm-3:30pm	$950/10 lessons $100/lesson	Saturdays	Siyong

Registration: https://goo.gl/azs8AU

Office address: 20432 Silverado Ave, Ste 7; Cupertino, CA 95014
Contact: spring.l...@gmail.com

USACO Class Prerequisite
USACO Bronze Class requirements: Understanding of basic Java or C++. Can write code without syntax errors, and knows basics such as arrays, loops, conditionals.
USACO Silver Class requirements: Fluency in Java or C++. Ability to consistently solve Bronze problems. You should be very familiar with conditional statements (if/else), loops (for/while), arrays, and strings. Knowledge in classes, object-oriented programming, comparators, iterators, etc. is preferred.
USACO Gold Class requirements: Ability to consistently solve silver problems. The Gold material assumes knowledge of Silver class material, such as knowing how to do BFS, DFS, and sorting, as well as know how to use standard data structures like arraylists, linked lists, stacks, queues, deques, heaps (priority queues), and binary search trees (TreeMap/map, TreeSet/set).

Instructors:

Chris Zhang, 2 years USACO finalist. Rising MIT freshman. Codeforces problem writer and International Master. Over 2 years USACO Silver teaching experience at SpringLight.

Siyong Huang, 2 years USACO finalist.  Rising MIT freshman. International Grandmaster at Codeforces. USACO Guide Content manager.

Mr. Felix Huang has taught computer science, math, and physics for high school students in learning centers in Bay Area for 10+ years. He has helped many students to advance from USACO Bronze, Silver, or Gold to Platinum. He is passionate about helping students overcome their barriers and reach challenging goals. He helped students gain profound understanding on these subjects. He works as software engineer in multiple areas including Java, C++, Python programming, backend data, and optimization problems. Mr. Huang received his MS in Math from U of Washington, MS in Computer Science from U of Arizona, and BS in Math from National Taiwan University.
黄老师有着丰富的programming，AP CS 和USACO计算机奥赛的教学经验，并取得了显著的教学成果。黄老师将自己的儿子从USACO最初级铜级（Bronze）带到USACO的最高级白金级（Platinum），而且不少学生满分晋级银级Silver，以及金级Gold和白金级Platinum。黄老师将他丰富的教学及竞赛经验结合生动的例子整理出了一堂堂干货，满满的系统性教学来帮助学生夯实基础，详解算法，解题技巧，逻辑思考，开拓思路。

Sherry Wang

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Mar 25, 2021, 5:25:12 PM3/25/21

to Cathy Chen, bayecho

Yes.

Which one do you need now?

For SpringLight Education inquires, please send email to Spring.L...@gmail.com. I may not check this personal email very often.

Sherry Wang 王晓瑞
(408)480-7547

www.SpringLightEducation.com

20432 Silverado, suite 7, Cupertino, CA 95014

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:16 PM Cathy Chen <cathy...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi ,

Do you provide 1on1 usaco tutoring sessions for preparing to pass silver and gold?

Thanks,

Cathy

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Sherry Wang

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Mar 27, 2021, 2:21:48 AM3/27/21

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We will offer in the summer too.

For SpringLight Education inquires, please send email to Spring.L...@gmail.com. I may not check this personal email very often.

Sherry Wang 王晓瑞
(408)480-7547

www.SpringLightEducation.com

20432 Silverado, suite 7, Cupertino, CA 95014

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 2:52 PM Nida Rizvi <nida....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Is this training for Dec test or are you going to offer another session too?

Thanks,
Nida

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