ARL Summer Intership flyer Seniors who have been accepted to UT Austin, but not necessarily attending UT Austin in the fall.  Preference is given to students that are attending UT Austin and whose intended major is aerospace, electrical, or mechanical engineering; computer science; geophysics; mathematics; or physics (but all STEM students that are eligible).

NACLO @ LASA

North American Computational Linguistics Open

The North American Computational Linguistics Open (NACLO) competition is a contest for U.S./Canadian high school and middle school students in which contestants compete by solving compelling and creative puzzles in linguistics and computational linguistics. Winners of NACLO are eligible to compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), one of twelve international high school science Olympiads. No prior knowledge of linguistics or second languages is necessary.

2026 NACLO Open Round

Date  Thursday January 29, 2026

Register  NACLO website (select LASA High School – listed under High School Sites – as your testing location). You can register on the website – deadline is Monday January 26th. There are only 50 slots. After that you, if there is still room, you can can show up on Thursday and register as a walk up (if you plan to do walk-up registration, please send me an email by Wednesday lunch time at [email protected] so I can make extra copies of the test).

Time   Arrive by 8:45 a.m. for registration and seating. The test runs from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. For LASA students this is an excused absence.

Place  LASA High School  S M A L L   G Y M, 1012 Arthur Stiles Rd, Austin, Texas 78721, entrance of school

LASA Students  make sure your teachers are OK with you missing class that day.
Not a LASA student  park on the street & enter the school & sign in at the office (be sure to bring an ID).

What to bring   a couple of black pens (contest is free)
Look at   student handbook

Site coordinator  Rainer Mueller, LASA Computer Science Teacher ([email protected])
Site id  L095

NACLO Student Resources

Practice Problems (with Solutions) 

In the Open Round of the competition on January 26, 2017, 1509 students from across the U.S. and Canada competed at more than 200 sites. The top 10% go on to compete in the Invitational Round. Finally the top finishers in the Invitational Round compete in the International Linguistic Olympiad.  LASA student Evan Hochstein was selected as an alternate for the US team in 2017 (press release)

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