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The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) is an annual competition for junior high and high school students in Canada and the United States. This year, students were competing against 1700 fellow peers.Ìý
NACLO presents language and logic problems is the format of fun puzzles that can be solved by students using analytical reasoning. All of these problems are written, so students do not need a background in linguistics or computer science.Ìý
In January, 22 local students joined the Ä¢¹½AV Faculty of Computer Science team to compete at the Goldberg Computer Science Building.ÌýAll students competed for a chance to participate in the International Linguistic Olympiad.Ìý
Five of the 22 student participants received prizes and certificates for participation at the Ä¢¹½AV site in January. A small ceremony took place on April 21 where students were presented with their awards by the Faculty of Computer Science Undergraduate Committee Chair, Dr. Mike McAllister.Ìý
A big congratulations goes to all of this year's Ä¢¹½AV NACLO winners:
1st place
Ruining Zhang, Grade 10 Ìý
Prize: tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab E
Ruining not only was our local first place winner, she also qualified for the Second Round of NACLO (~10% of participants across North America qualified).Ìý
2nd place
Emma Mclean, Grade 12 Ìý
Prize: tablet Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 10''
3rd place
Maria Samman. Grade 11
Prize: Ìýtablet Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 10''
4th place
Ruikang Guo, Grade 12
Prize: Roku 3 streaming player
5th place
Victor Gao, Grade 9
Prize: Roku 3 streaming player
Below Top: Maria Samman (3rd Place), Below Bottom: Victor Gao (5th Place), Missing: Emma Mclean & Ruikang GuoÌý
The Ä¢¹½AV site for NACLO is organized by Dr. Vlado Keselj, Armin Sajadi, Dijana Kosmajac and Magdalena Jankowska and couldn't run without this team!
The contest problems (and solutions) are now available online:
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