[Physics opps] FW: programming contest announcement

[8-opps@mit.edu]

-----Original Message-----
From: amluto at gmail.com [mailto:amluto at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Lutomirski
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:45 AM
To: young_c at mit.edu; savioli at mit.edu
Subject: programming contest announcement

Hi Crystal and Nancy-

Could you send this out to the undergrads and first-years grads?

Thanks,
Andy

Subj: MIT ACM Individual contest this Sunday

On Sunday, October 4th, from 12:30 - 5:30 pm we will hold the
individual phase of the MIT ACM Programming contest in room 1-115. The
goal of this contest is to help select a team of three students to
represent MIT at the ACM International Programming Contest (see
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc).

The team we be selected through a short series of competitions held on
consecutive Sundays and will compete at the local regional levels and
(we hope!) at the World Finals in Harbin, China in February, 2010.
You'll have an an opportunity to compete against teams from the best
universities around the world.

All MIT undergraduates are welcome (as well as some first or second
year graduate students; for more info on eligibility see
http://swerc.eu/swerc/EligibilityDecisionDiagram2009.pdf. The only
requirement is the ability to program in C, C++ or Java.

For additional information, visit
http://web.mit.edu/acmicpc/www/2009/ and join the mailing list
acmpc at mit.edu.

Come try out and help us win at the finals.!  If you are interested in
competing, email acmpc-coaches at mit.edu ASAP so we know how many people
to expect (and to buy pizza and coffee for).

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail acmpc-coaches at mit.edu.