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/.

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

Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM)

and

PHP Users Group – Philippines (PHPUGPH)

in cooperation with

Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.

bring you

PHP Roadshow 2009

(UPD leg)

Date: January 31, 2009

Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall, UP Department of Computer Science

Tentative Topics:

-Basic PHP

-Basic MySQL adn Database Modelling

-CakePHP

-Introduction to CMS/Joomla

-Advanced CMS/Drupal

Admission is FREE!

Limited seating is available. Please pre-register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/php-roadshow-2009/. Pre-registration is open until January 29, 2009 or until all slots are filled up. For more inquiries, please contact Ada (+639276785647) or email adcariaga@gmail.com

UP ACM General Assembly

Date and Time: January 19, 2008 (2 PM)
Venue: Classroom 3, DCS
Agenda:

A. PHP Road Show
B. CS Week 2009
C. iJob OJT Opportunities
D. Zembly Mashup Competition
E. ACM Distinguished Speakers Program (ACM DSP)
F. Edu Blog Awards
G. Java Tech Talk

Please come on time. Your attendance will be important.

There will be an OSUM Pizza Party after the General Assembly.

See you there!

We hope everyone who attended had a blast. More party pics may be seen at http://ruzette.multiply.com/photos/album/65/UP_ACMs_Christmas_Party_2008 and http://upacm.multiply.com/photos/album/30/UP_ACM_Christmas_Party_2008

UP ACM members were invited to become resource speakers during the eSkwela ICT Camp held from November 19 to November 26, 2008 in the Central Luzon State University, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija.

Members gave lectures on audio production, web designing, video editing, and desktop publishing to the camp participants from November 22 to 23.

This is the first time the eSkwela Project and its parent institution, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), organized the ICT Camp, which strives to become “an avenue for stimulating creativity, building leadership skills, and promoting teamwork” among the Project’s learners, mobile teachers, and instructional managers.

For more information about the ICT Camp, please visit its official website. (Photo courtesy of Sheine Flores)