hencheyj@merrimack.edu (04/26/91)
Me first! Hello, everyone!!...is anyone out there? Did everyone have programming contests for high school kids--how were they? Jean Henchey Merrimack College ACM hencheyj@merrimack.edu
klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith Lakeman) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr25.172314.21717@merrimack.edu> hencheyj@merrimack.edu writes: >Me first! > >Hello, everyone!!...is anyone out there? Did everyone have programming >contests for high school kids--how were they? We are putting on a programming contest for high school kids tomorrow, April 27th. This is for the Science Olympiad. We haven't done a programming contest for high school kids in the past, so this will be a learning experience. I'll let everyone know how things turn out. -Keith Lakeman klakeman@plains.nodak.edu -North Dakota State Univ. ACM -Secretary
blair@cs.columbia.edu (Blair Seidler) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr25.172314.21717@merrimack.edu> hencheyj@merrimack.edu writes: >Hello, everyone!!...is anyone out there? Did everyone have programming >contests for high school kids--how were they? Well, when I was in high school (not that long ago), we competed in contests run by ACSL (American Computer Science League) and CML (Continental Math League) plus a few local contests. I assume that these organizations are still in existence. Why not ask them? -- Blair A. Seidler Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science (212) 853-6874 Columbia University "Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science does not even know that my opinions exist, and would ignore them if it did."
vernard@prism.gatech.EDU (Vernard Martin) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr25.172314.21717@merrimack.edu> hencheyj@merrimack.edu writes: >Hello, everyone!!...is anyone out there? Did everyone have programming >contests for high school kids--how were they? > >Jean Henchey >Merrimack College ACM >hencheyj@merrimack.edu The Georgia Tech ACM just finished (as in hours ago) a high school programming contest for Georgia High School Students. The students used IBM ps/2 model 25s donated by IBM corporaton. The languages allowed were Borland Turbo Pascal 4.0 and BASICA. It seemed very successful. 26 teams from 20 different schools competed for 3 hours to solve 8 problems. Only one problem went completely unsolved. The contest was sponsored by the Georgia Insitutue of Technology's College of Computing and by the IBM corporation. This is the second year straight we have held the contest. Last year we only had 16 schools a 12 teams. We will probably increase the size of the contest again next year. It seems to be a big hit amont the high school students. The high school teachers also like it because during the contest, they have a chance to talk to one of the professors here at Tech on what a kid needs to know about computers and programming to do well in the Comp Sci courses at Tech. If you are looking for an interesting event for your ACM chapter, I highly recommend doing a high school programming contest but make sure that you have plenty of people on the planning committe. We managed to pull this off with only around 20 folks. A large ACM group could easily do it! ------- Vernard Martin , System Account Manager and Graduate Student College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!gatech!prism!vernard -or- Internet: vernard@prism.gatech.edu "Where there is a will, there is a way to subvert it!" - me. -- Vernard Martin , System Account Manager College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!gatech!prism!vernard -or- Internet: vernard@prism.gatech.edu "Where there is a will, there is a way to subvert it!" - me.