NACLO @ LASA
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
2017 NACLO Open Round
Date: Thursday January 25, 2018
Register: NACLO website (select LASA – listed under High School Sites – as your testing location)
Time: Arrive by 8:30 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: LBJ Theater at LASA/LBJ High School, 7309 Lazy Creek Dr., Austin, Texas 78724 (see picture at bottom)
Site coordinator: Rainer Mueller, LASA Computer Science Teacher ([email protected])
Site id: 402
What to bring: a couple of black pens (contest is free)
Look at: student handbook
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) 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.
Practice Problems Past Olympiads
NACLO consists of two rounds. The first round is open to all interested students. Top scorers in the first round are invited to compete in the second round.
