Programming Contests
IBM Master the Mainframe - starts in Oct with $29,000 in prizes and no experience is necessary.
http://ibm.com/university/contest
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) - only for high school students
And students solve linguistics puzzles, learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while using logic skills. Starts Feb 2, 2011.
Give students a taste of natural-language processing in the 21st century
http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/
COMCOM: Free monthly on-line programming contest by Richard Lamb, 5 contests per year and programs can be written in any language.
http://www.richlamb.com/comcon.html
USACO: USA Computing Olympiad, 6 contests a year.
http://www.uwp.edu/sws/usaco/
Georgia Educational Technology Fair - State comp is March 12, 2011 at Howard HS in Macon, GA
Only first place winners from the 13 regional districts qualify for the state competition
Individual and Team Programming Challenge as well as other non-programming categories
http://www.techfair.org/
FBLA / SkillsUSA
Computer game and simulation programming
Desktop application programming
Helpdesk
A+ type of competition
Must program in Visual Basic, Java, C#, C++, or RPG
http://wwww.fblapbl.org/docs/FBLA2010CompEvents.pdf
Games for girls contest
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/outreach/g4g2006.php
http://www.topcoder.com/
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