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From: craig@med.unc.edu (Ron Craig)
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Subject: Re: HS Contests....
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Date: 8 May 91 13:28:23 GMT
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In article <9105021917.AA27597@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> hurwitz@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Roger A. Hurwitz) writes:
>[ ...  Statement on evils of rewarding cleverness more than good 
	design deleted 
> ... ]
>I propose the following alternative:  
>            The ACM Student Software Development Contest.
>The basic idea is as follows:
>    1) individual contestants are put randomly together into teams,
>	[ ... other points deleted ... ]
>I also believe that contestants will get valuable team work experience from
>this approach.  By randomly assigning teams, the contestants will get a 
>real feel for the world of software development!  In addition, maybe they
>will make some new friends in the process =).

Just don't forget to give *individual* trophys/certificates AND a school
award to each school having a member on the winning pair of teams.  Some
schools really allow their students to go so that the school gets an
award it can show to local businesses that donate equipment.
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