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Students from Texas, Louisiana & Oklahoma Invited to Participate in ACM Regional Programming Contest
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.
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.