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The Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter congratulates the 10 teams that represented the University during the 2009 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Onsite Contest held last Oct. 22-23, 2009, at the Ateneo de Manila University.

The team of Marte Raphael Soliza, Kevin Charles Atienza, and John Eddie Ayson (Mga SOGO Ni E.T.) was declared the champion, beating 54 other teams from Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. They solved all 10 problems in 606 minutes (including time penalties).

Meanwhile, the team of Joseph Jesneil Montalbo (Chairperson of the UP ACM), Jose Plutarco Bawagan, and Luke Wicent Sy was ranked fifth among all participants and second among the Philippine teams, edging the following team by only 34 minutes.

The rest of the UPD teams placed 10th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th.

Because of their success, Soliza, Atienza, and Ayson are eligible to participate and compete in the 2010 ACM/ICPC World Finals, which will be held in February 2010 at Hanbin University, China. This will be the third time that the country will be represented in the prestigious programming tilt, and the first time for the University.

For the complete results, check out Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog.

UPDATE (07/25/2009): Submission of entries is already closed. UP ACM members who wish to cast their votes may do so through the poll in our Yahoo! Group.

This contest is open to all registered UP ACM members as of the first semester of AY 2009-2010.

Category A: UP ACM Official Shirt
1. The design should be made for ordinary round-neck shirts.
2. The UP ACM logo must be on the T-shirt and must be positioned where it can be easily found and recognized (e.g., at the back, at the front-upper- right, at the middle)

Category B: Fundraiser Shirt
1. The design should be made for ordinary round-neck t-shirts.
2. The design should be related to computer science, information technology, or any of their derivatives.
3. You are not allowed to include the following in your design:

• UP ACM logo
• DCS logo
• UP logo
• any other logo that specifically references the ACM, the Chapter, or the University

Criteria for Judging (this will go for both categories):

Council’s Rating —- 40%
Members’ Rating — 60%
Total —————— 100%

Prizes:
Category A – PhP 500 + free shirt
Category B – PhP 250 + free shirt + 10% of net sales

A contestant may only send one entry per category. Email your designs in JPEG or PNG format, together with your name and student number, to gvsamson@upacm.net on or before July 24, 2009, 11:59PM.

Voting period will open on July 25 and will close on July 31. Winners will be announced on the next General Assembly.

*By submitting your design, you will be giving up all rights to the design over to the Chapter.
*Members of the Executive Council and officers of the UP ACM Finance Committee are automatically disqualified from joining the contest.:

This competition is open to UP students only. Register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/acm-pc/

UP ACM congratulates the UP Diliman Programming Team for a successful campaign in the recently concluded 2nd Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Competition held on 22 November 2008 at the University of San Jose-Recoletos, Basak Campus, Cebu City, Philippines.

Five UP ACM members took part in the competition:

1. Bande, Neil Armin
2. Montalbo, Joseph Jesneil
3. Pinca, Apple
4. Pineda, Ralph Raniel
5. Sze, Jennylyn

The six UPD teams (each of which had three members) got the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th places. Kudos to the Team and its coach, Mr. Eric Tambasacan, who got the Best Coach award! For more information, please visit Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog. (Photo courtesy of Neil Bande)

UP ACM, UP CURSOR and UnPLUG invite you to attend K.I.S.S.S 2008 – Knowledge, Information, and Skills Sharing Sessions on June 21 and June 28 at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (commonly known as UP Eng’g Lib 2 and Computer Science Department).

Schedule

June 21

9-12 pm – GIMP
1-4 pm – Macromedia Flash

June 28

9-12pm – PHP with MySQL
1-4pm – HTML/CSS

This is a FREE tutorial.

Registration starts at 8:30 am and 12:30 pm
You can register at kisss.upacm. org

See You There!

For Inquiries, kindly text or email
Ruzette Tanyag
(rptanyag@gmail. com – 09164096081)

Last year, as part of UP ACM’s recruitment program, a ‘referral contest’ was held called Tag! You’re It!. It was a strengthening of our recruitment program and a great chance for members to invite their friends to join the chapter.

Continuing this year, we will have Tag! You’re It! 2, which is a carry-over of last year’s referral contest.

Rules are the same as before, but I will reiterate them here:
Mechanics:

1. Tag! You’re It! is a recruitment drive of the UP ACM which is open to both members and non-members of the student chapter but excluding its council and alumni.
2. Any UP student may be recruited since UP ACM is a university-wide organization.
3. An award will be given to the recruiter in the following categories:
   • referred the highest number of CS students
   • referred the highest number of non-CS students
   • referred the highest number of CS and non-CS students combined
4. For the referral to be valid, the complete name of the referrer should exist on the referral field on the membership form.
5. The referral is considered void if (1) there are vandalisms/erasures found on the referral field (on paper forms), and (2) the recruit is a former member of the org.
6. In case of renewals, leave the referral field blank.
7. A recruiter can only win a single category. The council will tally and rank recruiters based on the number of members they recruited in the designated categories and then decide the winners for each category.
8. The end of the campaign which is on June 30 is also the end of membership renewal.
9. The prizes will be announced at the end of the campaign. (probably cash, if the finance head will approve it)

Good luck! Any inquiries should be sent to membership [{at}] upacm [{dot}] net.

It’s renewal/application period again for UP ACM! But this year, the membership committee is launching our very first recruitment contest:

Tag! You’re It! : The UP ACM Membership Contest!

Mechanics:

1. Tag! You’re It! is a recruitment drive of the UP ACM which is open to both members and non-members of the student chapter but excluding its council and alumni.
2. Any UP student may be recruited since UP ACM is a university-wide organization.
3. An award will be given to the recruiter in the following categories:
   • referred the highest number of CS students
   • referred the highest number of non-CS students
   • referred the highest number of CS and non-CS students combined
4. For the referral to be valid, the complete name of the referrer should exist on the referral field on the membership form.
5. The referral is considered void if (1) there are vandalisms/erasures found on the referral field, and (2) the recruit is a former member of the org.
6. In case of renewals, simply put “N/A” on the referral field.
7. A recruiter can only win a single category. The council will tally and rank recruiters based on the number of members they recruited in the designated categories and then decide the winners for each category.
8. The end of the campaign which is on July 27 is also the end of membership renewal.
9. Additionally, upon the end of the campaign, MEMBERS (AY 2006-2007) who had referred more than 5 new members will receive a Certification of Appreciation for Service to UP ACM.
10. The prizes will be announced at the end of the campaign.

For membership forms, you may get them at the CS New Bldg (c/o Ate Mila), ask from any UP ACM Council, or download it here.

To get recruitments tips, you may visit our website or email us at membership[AT]upacm[DOT]net.

Good luck!

For more details contact: 09178128293 (Lyn)