EDIT: Tickets are already available!
A few more Thursdays to go ’til YesThursday, UP Fair’s Thursday offering!

Watch this space for more details.

Be a fan of YesThursday’s Facebook page here!

For ticket reservations, you may contact Gian (+639152597647) and Junnel (+639163005993) or email council@upacm.net.

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Interested players may register here!

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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: You may register for the next two lectures right now!

Get ready to spin up a kick-ass website for yourself or your org!

On August 29, learn about the current standards and trends in designing a web site during the Web Design Basics lecture. Then on September 5, get to know the Groovy and Grails framework, the latest and hottest in web programming. And on September 12, improve the efficiency and ease-of-use of your website through a talk on Web Usability.

All lectures will be held from 1PM to 5PM at the Lecture Hall, Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (across NIGS). Admission is free. For questions/whatnot, contact Rose Ann (0926 670 9286).

This series is brought to you by the Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter and Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd.

Buy your official UP ACM shirts for only PhP 150 each!

Submit your orders now by filling up this form. Deadline of submission of orders is on August 27, 2009.

For inquiries, contact Gian at +639152597647 or email finance@upacm.net

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.: