THE 2009 BOSTON-AREA PRELIMINARY
OF THE ACM PROGRAMMING CONTEST

Directions: The contest will be held at the Science Center at Wellesley College . (Click on links for maps and directions.) Please park in parking area directly east of the Science Center, which is called Gray Lot --- see the maps at the end of this announcement. (Some maps depict a small house nearby called Gray House, but that's been removed.) The entrance to the building is up the main staircase at the front of the building (shown in the picture to the left). If you have trouble finding the campus or building, or trouble geting into the building, call Franklyn Turbak at 339-225-0287 or Scott Anderson at 508-314-0180.

• 8:30 - 9:45am: Register at the registration table as you enter the Science Center at the very top of the stairs. Registration is $75; make checks payable to Wellesley College. Cash is also acceptable, but we cannot process credit cards. Each team will be assigned its own office or classroom with one terminal. After registering, teams may go to their rooms to practice using their contest accounts. Hardcopies of handouts that are on the web will be provided.
  
  Breakfast (bagels, donuts, juice, coffee) will be provided at this time outside Room E111. Please eat in the hallway or in E111 and not in other classrooms or offices.
  
  
• 9:45am - 10:00am: VERY short meeting in Room E111 solely to introduce the people running the contest and answer questions. In theory, everything you really need to know will be in the handouts which you have read off the web and were given in hardcopy when you checked in. The meeting will end at 10:00am SHARP with problems being handed out, after which teams will go to their terminals.
  
  
• 10:00am - 3:00pm: The actual contest! After the contest starts, the contestants can run hpcm_get to set up their problem directories.
  
  
• 11:30ish: Box lunches for contestants/coaches will arrive in the hallway outside Room E111. They will be available for the rest of the contest. Please eat in the hallways and not in the computer labs, offices, or classrooms. Room E111 is an exception -- you may eat lunch in this room. We will have lunches for all team members, coaches, and volunteers. If members of your team have dietary restrictions, please email fturbak@wellesley.edu .
  
  
• 3:00pm -- 3:30: Destress. Discussion of problems over ice cream in E111 as we wait for results. Take group picture?
• 3:30pm -- 3:45pm: Announcement of final scores and winners.
• The main BOSPRE site is here.