Lamar ACM

It's that time again! All CS classes are cancelled to make time for students to participate in student organized events! Please join us in the events and competitions!

Schedule:

10:00 Computer Building Contest – Upstairs Maes Commons
Test your building skills and try to disassemble and reassemble a computer tower in the fastest time!!

11:00 Google Word Hunt – Lab 211
Show off your Google skills by being the first to answer all the trivia questions!!

12:00 Links and a Movie: Wall-e – Room 111
Watch the award winning film about a lonely robot and his journey across the galaxy. Links will be sold for $2.

2:00 Clues! – Upstairs Maes Commons
Team up and solve tough riddles to get to the final Clue!

3:00 Scratch Animation Competition – Lab 215
Show off your creative side using Scratch to create a CS related animation. The best one wins a prize!

4:00 Adjournment – Upstairs Maes Commons

We also discussed the menu for the Spring Banquet. You can read all information about the Spring Banquet in the forums under General Topics.

Our new officers are official as of this month. They will be helping the old officers with preparations for the Spring Banquet and will be shown the ropes until the end of the semester. Please welcome them.

President - Valerie Juarez

Vice President - Ric Guidry

Treasurer - Daniel Vincent

Secretary - Kasey Doss

Here are the events that are coming up:

LAN Party - Friday Feb 6th, Upstairs Maes Commons 6pm-6am
Bring your computer and spend the night playing LAN games with other students. Join in console games or watch Anime. Free to come, $10 for pizza and drinks.

ACM Meeting - Friday Feb 13th, Maes Rm 111 2pm

Game Night - Friday Feb 27th, Upstairs Maes Commons 6pm-Midnight
Play Risk, Cranium, Monopoly, Cards, Life, or other choice of games. Bring your favorites.

ACM Meeting - Monday Mar 2nd, Upstairs Maes Commons 4pm
Officer Elections

On Saturday September 6th at 6 pm, the ACM will be at Crossroads Bowling Center on Dowlen for Bowling Night. Please join us!!

The cost for 2 games will be about $12 including shoes, and for 1 game it will be about $7.

Please e-mail acmlamar@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Look at the meeting minutes for the address.

The first and only LAN party of the semester will be November 21st. We invite you to come game with us on PC or console, or just hang out and watch anime. Bring some of your friends with you too!

It will be held in the Maes building on the Lamar University campus from 6pm until everyone passes out.

It is totally FREE to come and play games. There will be plenty of games to download from other people's computers. Bring your PC and play some Call of Duty with us or just show up to play the console games like Smash Bros. and Halo.

Also, for just $10 you can have Pizza and Drinks available all night.

This time we are also coordinating with JECC (Japanese Entertainment and Culture Club) and will have a section devoted to watching anime on a big screen with Japanese snacks to accompany the entertainment.

I have attached a copy of the LAN party flier. Feel free to print out a copy to post on the wall or give to your friends.

Update: The Beaumont Enterprise wrote an article about our accomplishment.

This year our teams did very well at the ACM Regional Programming Contest. The Birds of Prey team placed 19th out of 68 teams and the Cardinals team placed 55th out of 68 teams.

Lamar University was represented by the following teams:

1. Undergraduate students team: 'Birds of Prey'
   • James Carnley
   • Ricky Guidry
   • Jacob Wallace
2. Graduate students team: 'Cardinals'
   • Ran Qi
   • Suman Rajbhandari
   • Vishal Patel
3. Coach: Dr. Stefan Andrei

Official Results of the 2008 ACM Regional competition:

1. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard Summary
   
2. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard for Texas Teams
   
3. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard for Teams participating at LSU site
   
4. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard Finals

We have also uploaded pictures from the event into the "2008 Programming Contest" folder of the image gallery.

Here are some images of our trip:

Our teams ready to depart Lamar.

The undergraduate team Birds of Prey.

The graduate team Cardinals.

Our teams taking a tour of LSU and posing near the statue of the LSU Tiger mascot.

Yes, LSU has a real live Tiger as their mascot. Where is our cardinal?!

Our teams standing for a photo with Issac Traxler after the contest. Issac has taken teams to the world finals and has run the regional competition for many years. He was also the man who convinced the Internal ACM to ditch Windows for Linux for the contest. Bravo!

We had a great time and put forth a lot of effort. We hope next year will be even better!

Check out the minutes for this month in the forums.

Since Club Fletch is still closed from the hurricane, we will not be having Laser Tag on the 25th. If you have any ideas about doing stuff that weekend, let us know.

Because of the hurricane, all September events have been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later time.

The Programming Contest has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 30th at 5pm.