2009 MTSU Linguistics Olympiad
January 31, 2009
Registration for the 2009 MTSU LO has closed.
With 100 registered participants, we have now reached our limit.
Please contact us for information about next year's competition.

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
February 4, 2009
You may still register to participate in this year's NACLO.
You may compete at the MTSU campus or at your local school.
Please go to http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/ for registration information.
For directions to MTSU, please go to http://www.mtsu.edu/admissn/dir_admissn.shtml.

Information about the 2009 MTSU Linguistics Olympiad
January 31, 2009, MTSU Campus, BAS Building
Sponsored by the English Department

For directions to the Business Aerospace Building (BAS) at MTSU, please go to http://www.mtsu.edu/admissn/dir_admissn.shtml.


Competition Schedule
8:30 - 9 a.m. Registration (BAS 2nd floor)
9 a.m. Welcome and Announcements (BAS State Farm Lecture Hall)
9:15 - 11:30 a.m. Junior and Senior Division Individual and Team Competition (BAS classrooms)
11:30 - 12:15 p.m. Lunch (provided for participants and teachers)
12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
1:15   - 2:15 p.m.		 Fun activities (BAS 2nd and 3d floor)
Answers to the competition problems (BAS State Farm Lecture Hall)
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Awards Ceremony (BAS State Farm Lecture Hall)

Middle school and high school students are eligible to registerfor either the individual or the team competition.  
Teams may consist of up to four students.

To register, please email the following information to ablackwe@mtsu.edu:
    Name, School, Grade
    Individual or Team Competition (if you are registering for the team competition, please list all the names of team members)
    Shirt size (adult S, M, L, XL)
Note: Students may register themselves. Teachers may also register school teams and/or individual participants.
   

For more information, please contact Dr. Aleka Blackwell at ablackwe@mtsu.edu.

Follow these links for LO practice problems:
http://webscript.princeton.edu/~ahesterb/puzzles.php
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev/namclo/practice.html
http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/practice.php


Past competitions
MTSU Linguistics Olympiad 2008
Sponsored by an MTSU Public Service Grant
Picture of Participants

The winners in the high school individual competition were: Jomya Lei, Ravenwood High School, first place; Amanda Cain of Siegel High School and YooJin Sohn of Ravenwood High School, second place (tie); and Adrienne Sands of Ravenwood High School, third place.

In the high school team competition, the winners were: Riverdale High School (Heidi Klumpe, Lauren Rigsby, Anna Smith and Jade Watts), first place; Siegel High School (Rob Fults, Dana Lea, Jill Michaelson and Jared Peck), second place; and Siegel High School (Phillip Black, Matthew Clayton, Sara Nasab and Kim Miller), third place.            

In the middle school team competition, the winners were: Blackman Middle School (Brooklynne Bell, Meggan Marvin, Shelby Scott and Lina Whitaker), first place; Greenway School (Timothy Blackwell and Jonah Diegel), second place; and Blackman Middle School (Taylor Fitzpatrick, Greer Kimbell and Micah Haskins) and Greenway School (Sarah Margaret Huthinson and Blaire Toedte), third place (tie).
MTSU Linguistics Olympiad 2007
Picture of Participants 

The winners in the individual competition were: Rachel Rounion of Siegel High School, first place; Josh Milam of Siegel High School, second plance; and Amber Leigh Williams of Siegel High School, third place.

The winners in the team competition were: Siegel High School (Josh Milam, Rachel Rounion, Sophie Boehm, and Christina Witt), first place; Riverdale High School (Cole Garrett, Caety Carter, Anne Guiler, and Tom Savady), second place; and Riverdale High School (Anna Smith, Lauren Rigsby, and Jade Watts), third place.

See http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=2852 for a full story.