- More multi-tiered Contests Eligibility to register for regional: "Be registered in a school (local) or larger community of peers contest (semi-local) contest." Report all reams attending and the final teams to me. "If in database will receive ACM student membership?" - Improved outreach Teams did compete then stopped: Why stopped? fac member left, or focused on tenure/promotion, ACM chapter doesn't exist. Sometimes contact is all it takes. Would you come back? ACM distinguished speaker list should have a programming contest speaker to speak to chapters. Contact ACM crossroads & sigs to post regional contest dates and contact info as PSAs. - More stuff to do (Challenge) scripting contests on Friday night ICPC Challenge use this problem for next year's regional Java Challenge Site has HS outreach contest Game programming contest 2 months (have teams play each others games and judge the games. give results based on this) UNITY engine. - Raffle slot, Intra-Regional Slots a way to give "second place" a slot at WF take any extra super-regional slots and divide into a raffle situation AND have play off (if 4 guaranteed extra SR slots 2 + 2). (voting: each region has vote on extra slot -- if you vote and don't get you don't spend the weight, if you vote and get it you start over at zero) - More rewards for non-top 5 Ways to reward teams that don't believe they have a chance to be rewarded: Best in state best school w/only ugrad pgm " " w/ugrad & grad pgms solved problem first time best improved team from last year ( absval[thisyearrank - lastyearrank] by school steadfast programmers (last team to submit correct submission) team w/most incorrect submissions before solving a problem (persistence award) top team solving only one problem, top team solving one two problems, etc. top in site top community college (top 1 - n cc) division I, II, III, etc. in a region -- prizes for Flat fee per school no matter how many teams come. Chairs feel they are getting a "deal". Get another plaque of firsts in Region. will send email to all NA RCDS in a week with these choices. - Grow problem writers (have coaches write problems for other regions) - High School outreach - usaco (web) - IOI - use admissions/recruitment newsletters and advertise programs, etc. ALI: following Asia/Russia structure for contests Russia: 15 contests in region for entrance to one regional contest Asia: bunch of sites and a team could compete in as many sites as they wanted (now limited to 2 site contests); Now have three groups of sites and each group has a certain number of slots. - Create rivalry - League vs Tournament Suggestions for report: To increase participation and deal with equitable access to finals for those in my regions: SuperRegional model Don't change anything for my reason Rotating wild card allocation Raffle idea Create sub-committee to keep this alive? http://serjudging.vanb.org/ vanb@vanb.org for access to his blog. Epscor Additional Questions: - School/department support - What do we need? - How to increase? - What are we doing well? Publicity - effect/importance of the contest - how to promote