A special thanks to Professor Mitch Marcus and Professor Ani Nenkova
for hosting this years competition here at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Their dedication and hard work to ensure that this event runs
smoothly is greatly appreciated.
University of Pennsylvania Testing Site Map
NACLO is a fun (and educational!) contest for U.S. and Canadian high-school students in which contestants compete by solving compelling and creative puzzles in linguistics and computational linguistics. Requiring no previous knowledge of linguistics, languages, or computing, these puzzles can be solved by analytic reasoning alone, and serve as a fun introduction to a field to which many high school students have never been introduced. Winners of NACLO are eligible to compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad, one of twelve international high school science Olympiads.
Time |
Start |
End |
Pacific |
9:00am |
12:00noon |
Mountain |
10:00am |
1:00pm |
Central |
9:00am |
12:00noon |
Eastern |
10:00am |
1:00pm |
All contestants must be seated and ready to start at that time; the host should read the rules and make any announcements before the designated start time.
NACLO Invitational Round
March 11, 2009, times to be announced. The invitational round will be longer in duration and may include a break.
International Linguistics Olympiad
Wroclaw, Poland
Date in late July or early August, 2009 to be announced