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