PROGRAMME

5:45pm: Guests to be seated
            Screening of videos and competition montage

6:00pm: Arrival of Guest of Honour
            RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew
            Minister of State, Ministry of Education

            Opening Remarks
            by Prof Lily Kong
            NUS Vice President
            (University and Global Relations) and Vice Provost
            (Education)

            Speech by Guest of Honour
 
            Presentation of Prizes & Tokens of Appreciation

7:00pm: End of Ceremony followed by Buffet Dinner

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2007 ACMICPC Regional Contest Singapore
ACM ICPC is an innovative initiative that challenges the top students in the field of computer science with various problem-solving tasks. Operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University since 1989, ACM ICPC spans a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. In Asia, the regional contest draws students from colleges and universities throughout the region, from Amirkabir University of Technology in the Iranian capital of Tehran and various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), to Fudan University, Peking University and other top universities in China, through to University of Tokyo and Seoul National University in Northeast Asia, and rounding off with the established universities in our immediate region, including Vietnam National University, and our home-grown Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.

The hosting of ACM ICPC in Asia is rotated annually among various countries in the region, with the turn coming to Singapore only once in every four years. Elsewhere in the region, the event has drawn ministerial participation. Underscoring the importance of ACM ICPC in Asia, this year’s event has to date drawn a total of 57 teams – way above the 40 anticipated by the organisers.

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Algo*Mania
Algo*Mania is targeted at secondary school, junior college and polytechnic students, and is organised with the support of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) as part of its National Infocomm Competitions. Algo*Mania follows the rules and procedures of ACM ICPC, except that it is to be completed in a shorter duration ¬– three hours – and with tasks pegged to the difficulty level of tasks in the established National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI). Proving its popularity among the target group, Algo*Mania has to date attracted the participation of 22 teams from secondary schools, JCs and polytechnics.

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FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Singapore 2007
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Singapore 2007 is Singapore’s national championship event of the successful FIRST LEGO League competition in the US. Organised by not-for-profit FIRST Society (Singapore), with the expertise support of NUS School of Computing, the event is open to young people between the age of 9 and 16. Using the LEGO Mindstorms set as tool, the aim of the competition is to expose young people to the basic concepts in search and knowledge representation as well as to a number of sub-areas of artificial intelligence in a visual and experiential way. Proving its popularity, FIRST LEGO League Singapore 2007 has attracted the registration of a total of 216 young people in 54 teams, each led by a mentor, even before the event launch date.

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SoC Infocomm Camps 2007
SoC Infocomm Camp from 18 to 19 December 2007 will round off SoC Infocomm Fest 2007. Targeted at JC2 students, these day camps seek to reinforce the message that infocomm is central to our modern dynamic economy even as the students ponder about their options in further studies and future careers.