Daily Bulletin, Friday, March 11, 1994

PROGRAMMERS TOPS:  A UW team has claimed first place in the finals of the 
18th annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in Phoenix, 
says Jo Ebergen of the Computer Science Club.  Members of the Waterloo team 
were Seiji Ando, Ian Goldberg, and Ka-Ping Yee.  The University of Otago, New 
Zealand, ended in second place, and Duke University (North Carolina) took 
third.  The UW team was the only one to solve six problems in the five-hour
contest.  Waterloo got to the finals, sponsored by the Association for
Computing Machinery, by winning in one of 15 regional contests last fall.

CHOOSING COURSES:  Today is the last official day for undergraduates to
preregister for their courses in future terms: spring (May), summer (July),
fall (September), and winter (January 1995).  Department and faculty offices
have the course offerings lists and the necessary paperwork.

EXPLORATIONS:  Some 1,400 children from grades 5 through 8, and their
parents, are expected to visit the engineering faculty tomorrow for
Explorations '94.  The event offers one-hour tours giving a glimpse of
what engineers and engineering students do.  "The tours highlight just a 
few of the interesting problems that society asks engineers to solve," said 
Carl Thompson of the department of civil engineering.  Among the featured 
projects are model buildings that sink in quicksand and a display on the 
destruction of pollutants with light. There will also be solar-powered
robots, concrete toboggans and wind tunnel models of buildings and aircraft.
There may be a few last-minute cancellations, so a call to ext. 2447 might
still reserve your future engineer a place on one of the tours.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK winds up today with two events: a breast
cancer information workshop (Davis Centre room 1301, 12:30 p.m.) and
"Womyn on the Verge", an entertainment evening, from 8 p.m. in Humanities
room 180.

THIS WEEKEND:  Happening on campus over the weekend are the second annual
UW juggling contest, starting at 11 tomorrow in the Campus Centre and
Physical Activities Complex, and "Rapunzel and Her Sisters", a show for
children, Saturday at 1 in the Humanities Theatre.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca