FW: [ACMCLUB-L] ACM Spring Programming Contest

[Matrow, John]

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Andresen [mailto:d...@k-state.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:23 AM
To: Don Gruenbacher; Timothy Bower; Matrow, John
Subject: Fwd: [ACMCLUB-L] ACM Spring Programming Contest

Don, Tim, & John,

Your students are welcome to join us! Feel free to publicize this event. We usually have over a hundred students participating.

Regards,
Dan

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Will Strohmeier" <will...@K-STATE.EDU>
To: ACMC...@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:34:37 AM
Subject: [ACMCLUB-L] ACM Spring Programming Contest

Hello!

This semester's programming contest will be held Saturday April 7th. Arrive at 11:00 am , contest starts at 12:00 pm and ends at 5:00 pm in Nichols Hall. Tons of pizza and drinks will be provided throughout the day.

For those of you who have not heard of the contest, it is a 5 hour long programming contest. Teams of up to 3 members are given access to one computer and attempt to solve roughly 10 questions. Solutions to the problems can be written in Java, C, or C++. During the contest, access to the internet is restricted to the Java Docs and an approved C/C++ Doc site. You are allowed to bring whatever printed material you believe will help you out. However no use of cell phones or calculators separate from the one on the computer is allowed. If you have any questions please let me know.

If you'd like to take part in the contest, then send Will Strohmeier ( will...@ksu.edu ) an email with the name and email address of each of your team members. If you would like to participate, but don't have a team I will do my best to find you one, just let me know you would like to participate.

Prizes:
1st: The new iPad
2nd: Eee Pad Transformer Prime
3rd: Kindle Fire

Sponsors:
Koch
Perceptive
GE Aviation
Garmin

I hope to see you there!
-Will Strohmeier
will...@ksu.edu