ACSL

American Computer Science League

Newsletter Final

June 2010

ALL-STAR CONTEST

The ACSL 2010 All-Star Contest was held at Conrad Weiser HS on Saturday, May 29, 2010. The host advisor was Arlan Dietrich. a total of 60 teams from the USA, Canada, Romania, Croatia and Slovenia competed. ACSL awarded prizes in six divisions.

The logistics of the contest were nothing short of magnificent. From the setup for registration, the use of student guides, the digital slide show, the great lunch menu and the one hour physics show featuring a bed of nails to the overall friendliness of the staff, this was a great event.

ACSL wants to thank all the advisors who chose to spend a long weekend with us rather than doing all the other things available on a Memorial Day weekend. In addition to supervising their students, ACSL puts the advisors to work as proctors and monitors. The advisors do a great job. The contest can't run without their help.

ACSL presented plaques to top scoring students and teams from the geographical divisions from the regular season. In addition ACSL awarded Lexmark 4-in-1 printers to the top 2 scoring teams in each of the 6 divisions. Further, plaques were awarded to each student and team that finished in the top 3 in their division. Computer related books were awarded to 150 students based upon their score on the short answer portion of the test. A total of 37 students got a perfect score on the short answer test.

Below is the listing of the top scoring schools:

INTERNATIONAL SENIOR 5

WOBURN CI, CANADA

PRVA GIMNAZIJA VARAZDIN, CROATIA

ANDREI SAGUNA NATIONAL COLLEGE, ROMANIA

SENIOR 5

JEFFERSON SCI/TECH HS, VA

LEXINGTON HS, MA

MONTGOMERY BLAIR HS, MD

SENIOR 3

GREGORE MOISIL NATIONAL COLLEGE, ROMANIA

BARRINGTON HS, RI

KALAMAZOO AMSC, MI

INTERMEDIATE 5

WOBURN, CI, CANADA

KALAMAZOO AMSC, MI

MONTGOMERY BLAIR HS, MD

INTERMEDIATE 3

HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE, TX

LA SALLE ACADEMY, RI

WEST CHESTER EAST HS, PA

JUNIOR 5

GREGORE MOISIL NATIONAL COLLEGE, ROMANIA

JEFFERSON SCI/TECH HS, VA

CYGNUS COMPUTER SCHOOL ROMANIA

ACSL CONTEST QUESTIONS

ACSL will sent all the teams in the League a set of the questions used at the All-star Contest. If you do not get them, please contact us. Their are always a few servers that do not accept the bulk mail and attachments that we send.

2011 ALL-STAR CONTEST SITE

ACSL does not yet have a site for the 2011 All-star Contest. If you would like to host, contact Jerry Tebrow at info@acsl.org. Jerry will provide all the details.

ACSL 2011

If you are spending part of your summer at conference for Computer Science teachers, please let ACSL know. We would love to send some registration gifts and flyers to that site. Also, if you are enjoying the ACSL experience, please spread the word to the other CS teachers that you meet. ACSL always quickly and thoroughly answers e-mails about the contest.

ACSL 2010 AWARDS

Plaques for those teams not at the All-Star Contest and for the Classroom division will be sent by US mail.

Have a great summer and we hope to hear from you in the fall!