Information on the Programming Contest to be held in the Math Lab

To all SSU Students,

There will be a Programming Contest held in the Math Lab, Sullivan Building 306, on Monday, April 13 between 4:30 pm and 7:30 pm. You are cordially invited to participate in the event. This contest is sponsored by JD Software (http://www.jdsoft.com/). Three undergraduate students and three graduate students will share $2,000 in prizes, with the following prizes for each category of students:
$500:  First Prize
$300:  Second Prize
$200:  Third prize

1. You may use any programming language installed on the computers in the Math Lab.
2. More details about the prizes and policies for this programming contest, along with a sample problem, are posted at
http://www.salemstate.edu/~arosenthal/prog_contest/ .
3. You can familiarize yourself with the contest rules and specifications, and participate in preparation and warm-up exercises, by coming to a sessions in the Math Lab, SB306, on Monday, April 6 from 4 - 5 pm and Friday, April 10 from 4:30 -5:30 pm.  During those sessions, help will be provided on using the programming languages installed on the computers in the Math Lab.
4. If Java is your preferred programming language, there is also a programming contest to be held in a Computer Science Lab, MH 210, on April 6 where the only programming language you may use is Java.  More information about the Programming Contest to be held in MH 210 is posted at  http://cs.salemstate.edu/~byi/progClub/progClub_www/SSU_contests/ .   Although students may enter both the programming contests in the Computer Science and in the Mathematics Department, nobody can win more than one prize. (If somebody qualifies for two prizes, they will win the most valuable prize, and somebody else will win the prize that the multiple prize winner was ineligible to receive).

**************Registration for the Contest***************
1. You must be a current SSU student, taking at least one course at SSU.
2. Please register by 2:30 pm on April 8 using the Eventbrite link at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/programming-contest-in-math-lab-tickets-16354336260 .  If this doesn't work, please register by sending an e-mail by 3 pm on April 8 using your SSU e-mail address to Dr. Arthur Rosenthal at arosenthal@salemstate.edu , with the following information:
Subject:  Registration for SSU Programming Contest
Your full name
Your major
Whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student
3.  The number of computers available for the contest in the Math Lab is limited to 19.  Should there be more than 19 registrants, priority will be given to those who have registered earlier.  In that case, we will consider other possibilities (perhaps two sittings for the Math part of the programming contest, just as there are often two sittings for dinner on cruises), but we can't promise that yet.

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Arthur Rosenthal, PhD
Mathematics Department
Salem State University
SB308I (978) 542-6392
http://www.salemstate.edu/~arosenthal

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