ACSL

American Computer Science League

Newsletter Final

May 2009

ALL-STAR CONTEST RESULTS
The results for the All-Star Contest are now posted on our web site www.acsl.org.

ALL-STAR CONTEST

The 2008-09 All-Star Contest held at Bob Jones HS, Madison, AL was a great success. The host advisor, Jennifer Roundtree, and her staff of faculty, parents and students did a fantastic job or organizing the event. Every advisor over the 30 years of this event has added a little extra to the contest. This year the addition of a college fair, a laser show and a game night made the All-Star Contest special. A big thank you goes out to the Bob Jones HS staff for all the hard work that went into making the event special.

HOST THE ALL-STAR CONTEST

The site of the 2009-10 All-Star Contest has not yet been determined. If you would like to host the event at your school please contact us at info@acsl.org. We will send you a list of requirements and talk you through the process. It is a lot of work but a very satisfying experience.

APPEALS

A unique event happened at this year's All-Star Contest. For the first time in the 30 year history of the event no appeals were submitted. In the ACSL rules, students can submit written appeals if they think an ACSL answer is incorrect or if they have a correct response to an alternate interpretation of a question. In the past although there were no ACSL errors, students found all kinds of situations they thought merited an appeal. The vast majority of appeals are denied but students did still submit some very interesting appeals.

NEW TEAMS

If you and your students enjoyed participating in ACSL, please tell other teachers about ACSL. If you are going to attend a computer science conference and wouldn't mind bringing some ACSL flyers with you, please contact us and we will get the flyers to you. Any other way you can think of to promote ACSL would be much appreciated.

GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS

ACSL has grouped the teams in the various divisions into geographic regions. The purpose of the regions is to create more places where ACSL can award prizes. The highest scoring team in each region will be awarded a plaque. The highest scoring student (s) in each region will also be awarded a plaque. In the event of ties, duplicate awards will be made. Most of the above awards will be presented at the All-star Contest in May. Plaques will be mailed to those not present. The winners of the geographic awards are as follows:

TEAM	DIV	STUDENT	SCHOOL	DIV
SENIOR 5
Montgomery Blair HS	Southern	S. Clarke	Park Tudor	Central
Park Tudor	Central	J. Das	Montgomery Blair	Southern
Phillips Academy	Northern	J. Hurwitz	Montgomery Blair	Southern
		S. Tian	Montgomery Blair	Southern
		B. Warsaw	Marriotts Ridge	Southern
		M. Wintermeyer	Park Tudor	Central
		C. Jackson	Phillips Academy	Northern
INTERNATIONAL
Emil Racovita	First	F. Jurisic	XV Gimnazija
XV Gimnazija	First	M. Krekovic	XV Gimnazija
		I. Kicic	XV Gimnazija
		B. Vukadinnoviv	XV Gimnazija
		G. Flegar	Prva Gimnazija
		A. Trstenjak	Prva Gimnazija
		C. Cazan	Emil Racovita
		A. Merdan	Emil Racovita
		B. Mihut	Emil Racovita
		A. Trenea	Emil Racovita
		L. Uilecan	Emil Racovita
		T. Vlas	Emil Racovita
		M. Ionescu	Gregore Moisil
		D. Oana	Gregore Moisil
SENIOR 3
Dalton School	Northern	R. Kelly	Enloe	Central
Woburn CI	Northern	R. Ramani	Half Hollow Hills	Northern
Enloe	Central	G. Rosenblatt	Half Hollow Hills	Northern
Midland	Western	A. Sidhu	Half Hollow Hills	Northern
Kalamazoo AMSC	Western	H. Wang	Woburn CI	Northern
Half Hollow Hills	Northern	S. Wu	Bergen County	Northern
		N. Garg	Taylor HS	Western
INTERMEDIATE 5
Enloe	Southern	M. Bucic	XV Gimnazija	Central
XV Gimnazija	Central	T. Bujanovic	XV Gimnazija	Central
Conrad Weiser	Northern	M. Milisic	XV Gimnazija	Central
		A. Razum	XV Gimnazija	Central
		C. Kessler	Marriotts Ridge	Southern
		R. Setra	Montgomery Blair	Southern
		S. Shaan	Woburn	Central
		N. Lum	Freehold	Northern
INTERMEDIATE 3
Mihai Viteazul	Central	R. Carnaru	Mihai Viteazul	Central
Timothy Christian	Metro	V. Ditu	Mihai Viteazul	Central
North Haven	Northern	S. Moldoveanu	Mihai Viteazul	Central
Kalamazoo AMSC	Central	R. Chen	Park Tudor	Central
		M. Jacobson	Harrison	Northern
		R. Fong	Timothy Christian	Metro
NOVICE
Saint Stanisslav	FIRST	N. Hudobivik	Saint Stanisslav
JUNIOR 5
Ray Chinese	Northern	P. Lu	Ray Chinese	Northern
Jefferson S/T	Central	M. Teh	Ray Chinese	Northern
		C. Yang	Ray Chinese	Northern
		S. Yuan	Ray Chinese	Northern
		L. Cai	Woburn CI	Northern
		A. Chen	Jefferson S/T	Central
		M. Gheorghe	Tudor Vianu	Northern
		K. Tran	Marriotts Ridge	Northern
		B. Qiu	Woburn	Northern
CLASROOM
Mihai Viteazul	First	M. Patel	Townsend Harris	Grade 12
Townsend Harris	Second	A. Garg	Mass Academy	Grade 11
Mass Academy	Third	A. Grecu	Mihai Viteazul	Grade 10
		L. Hodea	Mihai Viteazul	Grade 10
		M. Ionescu	Mihai Viteazul	Grade 10
		A. Marin	Mihai Viteazul	Grade 10
		A. Onofrei	Mihai Viteazul	Grade 10