[Fwd: [Events] Students from Texas, Louisiana & Oklahoma Invited to Participate in ACM Regional Programming Contest]
Christian Duncan
** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE **The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, will host its annual Regional Collegiate Programming Contest Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct. 30. Undergraduate students from universities or community and technical colleges in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana now can register to participate.This regional contest is part of annual events leading up to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in spring 2011. In the fall semester prior to the international contest, students from universities around the world compete regionally in teams of three undergraduate students and one professor, who acts as the team’s coach. The top team from each region earns an invitation to attend World Finals and compete for the international title.LSU, through the Center for Computation & Technology and the Department of Computer Science, will host the ACM South Central Regional Collegiate Programming Contest on Saturday, Oct. 30. The contest includes an introductory scripting competition on Friday, Oct. 29.The professor acting as coach must register each team by Saturday, Oct. 23 to compete in the regional competition. Teams pay a registration fee of $175, or an early bird fee of $125 if they register by Monday, Oct. 4. The coach also can register guests or team alternates for $30 per person.To register, coaches should visit the main programming contest Web site at http://icpc.baylor.edu, and add the team. The coach then must follow the directions for submitting payment before the team is officially accepted.The ACM South Central Regional Collegiate Programming Contest is open to any undergraduate students who graduated from high school within the past five years and are interested in programming. The student teams will have opportunities to practice leading up to the actual competition.Sites where students can participate in the 2010 ACM South Central Regional Collegiate Programming Contest are:
- LSU, Baton Rouge, La.
- Baylor University, Waco, Tex.
- East Central University, Ada, Okla.
- LeTourneau University, Longview, Tex.
During the competition, teams will spend five hours solving eight or more complex, real-world problems through programming. The teammates collaborate to rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements, design test beds and build software systems to solve the problems under intense scrutiny from a panel of expert judges.The team who solves the most problems with the fewest attempts in the least time is declared the regional winner, and that team then advances to the international contest. The ACM South Central Regional Collegiate Programming Contest will award local prizes including games, gift certificates, and plaques to participating teams.For more information on the regional competition, visit: http://acm2010.cct.lsu.edu.
Nathan Lapp
LSU? Also, how will you handle paying for the event?
Are you free at 5 PM Tuesday (10/5/10)?
Nathan Lapp
ACM Co-President
Quoting Christian Duncan <christian...@gmail.com>:
> CS programming enthusiasts,
>
> If anyone is interested in participating in the annual ACM
> programming competition, we should definitely try to meet about
> this. I haven't checked my schedule for this particular weekend but
> I believe I am free to take a team. I doubt we can make the
> early-bird deadline (unless we only have 3 people interested) but
> there is no reason we shouldn't meet the main registration date.
>
> If you are interested, let me know. If you know of others that
> might be interested, spread the word. If I get enough responses,
> I'll try to set up a meeting on Monday or Tuesday. If I only get a
> few then I'll just schedule a meeting with them at a more convenient
> time.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
>
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Christian Duncan
As for where, neither. We would best go to LeTourneau - in Longview.
It is a 2 hour drive straight across I-20.
As for funding, don't know. ACM clearly doesn't have the cash. I asked
the program chair if they would be willing/able to sponsor the
competition or some of it. So, we'll see. If it means I cover the
registration cost and gas to get there, then that'll be what we do. So
either way, if I can find a team we'll go.
And as for a meeting, yes, hmm, this week actually will be problematic
as my wife is away and I have to watch over one son. However, he is
older and I can bring him if need be and he already has a commitment on
Tuesdays that I can drop him off and come to campus before going back to
get him. But it needs to be later than 5PM.
So, I'll be emailing the ACM list and students again about the following
time: Tuesday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM. That shouldn't conflict with any class
schedules I hope.
-Christian