NACLO 2012 at the University of Maine The 2012 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad! Thursday, February 2, At The University of Maine (Neville Hall, room 231) Please confirm your registration with Graham Morehead: gm [at] pangeon [dot] com What is NACLO? The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) is a day-long contest for high school age participants. The contest contains challenging, puzzle-like problems that focus on aptitude for linguistic analysis and logical and computational thinking. Please Read the Handbook found at http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu. Goals of NACLO: Increase the size and diversity of the pool of future scientists in our field. Identify talented high school students and help them get the back-ground that they need for higher education in HLT and linguistic fields. Get the scientific study of language into high school curricula NACLO 2012: Over the last two years close to 100 high schools and more than 30 universities in the United States and Canada hosted more than 1000 students annually in this competition. The top students will be eligible to represent their country at the Eighth International Linguistics Olympiad. REGISTRATION: Registration is free and must be completed before noon on February 1, 2012. Please register with: Wendy_Maupin@umit.maine.edu or 207-581-3941 For more information, contact Graham Morehead, gm [at] pangeon [dot] com Directions to the University of Maine Campus Map             http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu