MSUM CHAPTER OF THE ACM

Reminder on MICS Programming Competition, April 13-14. We have 3 teams right now. Please remember to sign-up on the MICS website personally. Career fair on that Friday. March 8th is the final day for the programming block rate to be used.

We are still trying to get the roboics side of the competition figured out. Dr. Walker said we can use the school’s LEGO Mindstorm sets. Talk to Steve R. if you are interested in helping. More information should be coming soon, or speak to one of the officers. Tuesday at 11:30 in BR161 is the first meeting.

Dustin has a great logo for us to use on the mugs. Ordering will be done soon, $10/mug and will be taking pre-orders. Please talk to Matt if you would like to guarantee a mug.

The Raspberry Pi has finally been released, but they are almost impossible to get in the first batch. Expect more details to come.

Speaker: Dr. Chen lecture will be March 22 at 5:00PM-6:00PM and will cover Graph Compression. This will be a free lecture for all.

Ruby has another idea for a speaker. We are tentatively planning this in March and it will cover quality assurance through software engineering.

Programming Club will be starting up soon. Flyers will be coming soon to be passed out to high schools, colleges, and friends that want to learn programming. This group will be focused on teaching programming outside of classes and can be tailored to what the members want to learn.

April 21st we are tentatively planning a LAN party. Details will be coming out soon.

MICS Programming and Robotics Competition:
Programming Competition:

• April 13-14 2012
• Teams of 3 for programming competition.
• Groups must be submitted by February 28 to President or posted on ACM Facebook wall.

Robotics Competition:

• So far looks like we all will work as one team.
• More details to come.

Design Voting:

• Voting was done and the winning design is: “Viva Low Resolution!”
• Bring designs next week with ideas. (8- bit dragon, ASCII dragon, etc…)
• We still haven’t decided what the design will be printed on.
• Bring suggestions and ideas, so far we have mugs, tumblers, t-shirts. Any others?

Upcoming Speaker:

• Dr. Chen wants to present a speech for us and have given us some blocks of time.
• We decided to use a two week period in March and try to have it during one of our normal meeting times.
• He will be speaking  about graph compression.

Upcoming Events:

• We had numerous ideas for upcoming events. These include: Super Pixel Bros, High School Programming Contest, High School Programming Club, and the Raspberry Pi.
• Expect more information to come about these.

There is a speaker coming to present ‘Mapping in a Digital World’ which consists of a lecture and a workshop following. It is 02/16/2012 from 6:30pm to around 9:00pm and is held in Science Lab 118. It is a public lecture and no registration is required. If anyone wishes for more information contact me and I’ll forward the email I have for it.

Everyone be sure to join the Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/groups/msum.acm/) if you haven’t yet.

MICS 2012 April 13-14 2012

-need teams of 3

-travel to Cedar Falls, IA

-Robotics Competition

-Dr Chen wants to speak about compression algorithm and possibly his paper.

-next week we would like to pick out t-shirt design

-we can also look into making mugs or something else other than t-shirts

-purposed projects: cluster, raspberry pi, light display. Vote on one next week.

-purpose about creating a light show, buy controller and we would make the board. Chris has the info on that.

-purpose ARDUINO board that we would be able to do multiple things with them. Between $20-200.

-look into when we will be doing the Highschool programming contest.

-Need to figure out when and where to host a LAN party.

Attached is the link for the MICS webpage so you can get a little more information if you’re interested.

http://www.micsymposium.org/mics2012/index.shtml

Obviously there are some things still missing there, but it’s a start!

The weekly meetings are now 5pm on Thursdays in the Linux Lab.

This semester’s weekly movie night is starting on January 19th, 6pm to 10pm in SL 104, right after the weekly meeting.

• President: Matt Ehrichs
• Vice President: Chris Szarkowski
• Secretary: Baron Hines
• Treasurer: Ruby Fugleberg

Congrats to the new officers!

Reminder to all those attending Microsoft MORE- it’s tomorrow! If you haven’t planed to carpool, assume that you’re driving yourself.

All members PLEASE take a moment to read the email from Sarah (“Calling all ACM members!”). Thank you!

Our weekly programming contest has been waning in its attendance.

If you are attending MICS, PLEASE TRY TO MAKE IT TO THE NEXT MEETING. We will be finalizing plans for lodging and transportation.

Members in attendance: 10

Meeting adjourned at: 17:40

Team registration is open on the MICS website. People attending need to register individually, but must register as a team as well.

The registration for the Microsoft MORE program, being held on March 25th, can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204048326276173&index=1

The program is geared more towards women in the computer sciences, but men can attend too if there is room. There usually is.

The sign-up for free t-shirts (for ACM members) is up on the slateboard in the Linux lab. Non-member t-shirt sale will begin once t-shirts have actually been ordered and have arrived.

Reminder that there is a HPC meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30.

Members in attendance: 10

Meeting adjourned at: 17:11

For more information about the contest, check the event page.

http://acm.mnstate.edu/events/high-school-programming-contest/

Special offer!!!

Registration is now FREE!  Act now to take advantage of this awesome opportunity.

Quick Downloads

The following forms are also available on the event page, linked above!

Registration Form

Contest Itinerary

Programming Problem Specifications

Example Problem

Upon vote of present members, we have selected our quote for the 2010-2011 ACM t-shirts to be:

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Let me give you a pointer

0xFFA43041

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IMPORTANT! The MICS Registration is now open! Everyone attending needs to register at: https://www2.css.edu/epayment/mics/index.cfm

The ACM will be developing a collection of quick reference documents for members attending to have available during competition.

Reminder that there is a HPC meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30.

We have 12 members attending attending MICS 2011 forming four teams of three! Anyone interested in attending MICS after this point is on their own to find their own team, transportation, and lodging.

Members in attendance: 10

Meeting adjourned at: 17:31