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CSTA New England Regional Conference 2019 Forming a Team in your Middle/High School and joining the American Computer Science League Mario Correia Barrington High School

What is the American Computer Science League (ACSL) ? ● ● ● ● ●

What are some of the benefits of joining ACSL? ● Promotes CS ● CS Enrichment ● Develop and deepen Program Solving Skills ● Participate in four Contests Yearly ● Camaraderie and Team building in Academic setting

What support is available for the ACSL Advisor of your school? ● ● ● ● ● ●

ACSL Categories ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

1. Assembly Language ● ● ● ● ● ●

2. Bit-String Flicking ● ● ● ● ● ●

3. Boolean Algebra ● ● ●

4. Computer Number Systems

5. Data Structures ● ● ● ●

6. Digital Electronics ● ●

7. Graph Theory

8. Lisp (List Processing Language)

9. Prefix/Infix/Postfix Notation

10. Recursive Functions

11. FSA’s and Regular Expressions ● ● ● ●

12. What Does This Program Do?

ACSL Programming Contests ● ●

Programming Contest #1

Programming Contest #2

Programming Contest #3

Programming Contest #4

ACSL Divisions ● ● ● ● ●

Elementary Division ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Classroom Division ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Junior Division ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Intermediate Division ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Senior Division ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

What team can I form in the Elementary, Classroom and Junior Divisions? ● ●

What teams can I form in the Intermediate and Senior Divisions? ● ● ● ●

Role of the Advisor: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

How ACSL Contests Work

Elementary Division: ● ● ●

Classroom Division ● ● ●

Junior Division ● ● ● ● ● ●

Intermediate Division ● ● ● ● ● ●

Senior Division ● ● ● ● ● ●

Schedule

Contest 1 End Date: Dec. 20, 2019

Contest 2 End Date: Feb. 7, 2020

Contest 3 End Date: March 13, 2020

Contest 4 End Date: April 17, 2020

Sample Category Questions (found in Handout at Page Indicated) (Solutions to questions start on Page 15) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Registration Form