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.:

The Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter is now accepting applicants for the academic year of 2009-2010!
You can fill up the application form found at http://tr.im/appform
and submit the following requirements at ROOM 300, DCS Building (Eng’g Library 2).

Requirements:

- 1×1 ID pic (3 pcs)
- Photocopy of Form 5 with ID (3pcs)
- Php 100 application fee.

Please also attend the applicant’s orientation on July 1, 2009 (Wed), 5:30 PM at the DCS Building (Eng’g Library 2)

Food will be served!

UP ACM, UP CURSOR, and UnPLUG bring you Knowledge, Information and Skills Sharing Sessions (KISSS) 2009.

Pucker up and get hands-on experience on how to use various open-source software applications that will surely help you with your school work FOR FREE!

Take note of the following dates:

July 4, 2009 (Saturday)
Blender (9-12am)
JavaFX (1-4pm)

July 6, 2009 (Monday)
GIMP (9-12am)
HTML with CSS and Javascript (1-4pm)

The tutorials will be held at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (UP AECH).

But wait, there’s more! Participants will receive freebies!!!

So what are you waiting for? Register now!
There will be only 30 slots for each session, so hurry!

For more info, visit http://sites.google.com/site/kisss2009/about or send an email to up.kisss@gmail.com

Good news!

UP ACM’s Membership Renewal Form is now available online! Fill-up the application form found at http://tr.im/appform and submit the following requirements:

3 1×1 ID Picture
3 Certified True Copy of Form 5 with ID
Php 100 Renewal/Application Fee

You may submit the following requirements to any of the council members (Jayjay, Jhoijhoi, Ruzette, Gian, Bea, Manica, Roseann) or to the vice-head and secretary of the membership committee (Mark Anthony Morada, Cyrod John Domingo).

Hurry! We’d like to add you to the list of members for the org recognition! Submit them before June 28, 2009.

If you have any questions, please send an email to council@upacm.net

Let’s COMPUTE, COMPILE and COMPETE again!!

The UP ACM Executive Council election was held from March 16-18, 2009. The 7 individuals with the highest number of votes (out of 16 candidates) were declared as the new members of the Executive Council. An internal election among the winners was then held today to determine the specific positions of each Council member. The results are as follows:

Chairperson: Joseph Jesneil Montalbo (53 member votes)
Vice-Chairperson/Membership Head: Ruzette Tanyag (64 votes)
Secretary/Records Head: Manica Dimaiwat (26 votes)
Treasurer/Finance Head: Gian Paolo Samson (63 votes)
Education Head: Rose Ann Sale (48 votes)
Externals Head: Crystal Beatrice Camarao (42 votes)
Logistics Head: Jhoirene Clemente (33 votes)

Voter turnout during Executive Council election: 50.34% or 74 out of 147 voters

Congratulations to the elected Computer Science representatives for the academic year 2009-2010 in the recent Engineering Student Council elections:

Roy Erwin Dela Cruz
Rona Riza Gumia
Jamie Lou Polloso
Joven Sebido

All four of the elected CS representatives are UP ACM members. May you serve the CS community well. Congrats! Woot!

First Place: Jason Mari Josol (Manila Science High School)
Second Place: Paolo Joseph Lobitana/Damian N. Dailisan (Philippine Science High School)
Third Place: Gabriel Alberto A. Sanchez/Carlo Nikolas M. Montenegro (Ateneo de Manila High School)

weDesign Guidelines:

1. Eligibility. All interested participant must: (a) be a High School Student residing in the Philippines; (b) be currently enrolled in any high schools within the Philippines; (c) be familiar with any of the following technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript.
2. Team. Each team may consist of at most two (2) participants. A school may form at most two (2) teams.
3. Participant. Each participant cannot be a member of another team.
4. Registration. All interested schools may submit a Pre-registration form online or submit the attached Pre-Registration form via Fax. Online Pre-Registration form can be found on http://weDesign.upacm.org/
5. Contest Proper PREPARATION. Prepare the necessary image files needed for the web design creation. Use of copyrighted material is discouraged, unless the contestant has proper authorization from the copyright holder. Please show proof on the day of the event.
6. Contest Proper Mechanics.
   1. Teams are allowed to use any of the following software in the creation process:
      1. GEdit, Notepad any text editor
      2. GIMP
   2. Teams are limited to the following technologies:
   1. (X)HTML
   2. CSS
   3. Javascript
   4. JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
   3. The contest will run for three (3) hours only.
7. Judging. The web designs submitted are judged with the following criteria: (1) Ease of Navigation; (2) Creativity and User Appeal; (3) Usability; (4) Theme Adherence. Websites will be judged using Mozilla Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.
8. Substitution of Participants. The names of the participants and substitutes must be submitted three days prior to the event.
9. Winners. Winners are chosen by the contest’s judges and/or event’s sponsors. The names and schools of the winners will be announced after the judging period.
10. Timeline of Events.
    February 05, 2009: Start of Registration Period
    February 16, 2009: End of Registration Period
    February 20, 2009: Event Proper:
    8:00 am – 8:30 am : Registration
    8:30 am – 11:30 am: Contest Proper
    1:00 pm : Awarding
11. Theme. The theme for the event is: “Education in the 21st Century – What schools are doing with technology.“
12. Other Concerns. If there are concerns with the guidelines, please send your inquiries to ruzette@upacm.net

Register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/acm-dsp-lectures/.