Enclosed please find:
1) Local Coordinator Information Sheet: This document contains an explanation of all the steps that must be taken to conduct a local Competition Round. This round must be conducted on March 10-13, 1995 Please read this document carefully.
2) White Envelopes: Each contestant is provided with his or her own white envelope which contains the problem(s) to be solved within a strict five hour time limit. All of the information necessary to solve the problem(s) is enclosed in that envelope. Keep this envelope secure until the day of the Competition Round. No one may open their envelope except the contestants and then only when the contest begins. Please follow this rule to the letter.
3) TEST DATA. Once the time limit is up, you should have each student run the TEST DATA that is given with each problem. Copies of the output should be printed and submitted along with the program disk. You may ask the student to enter the test data into a file or you may do this for all students in the group.
Please fill out and return the Local Coordinator Information sheet along with all the contestants' work. Also check that all contestants fill out and include their Information Sheets with their solutions disk.
If you have any questions, please give me a call at 414-595-2231 and leave a message. I can also be contacted through e-mail (piele@cs.uwp.edu).
Thank you and good luck!
Please return the work to:
Dr. Donald T. Piele USACO University of Wisconsin-Parkside 900 Wood Rd Kenosha, WI 53141-2000
2) Schedule five hours for the contestants to write their program(s). If you have more than one contestant, all should write their programs during the same 5-hour period. It is important to keep the problems confidential.
3) Provide each contestant with a blank, formatted 3.5" disk (IBM or MAC) on which to store and submit th