The HiLT Lab hosted NACLO, the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, for 45 high school students from the DFW region on January 25, 2018. Thanks to (L-R) Namratha Urs, Natalie Parde, Dr. Rodney Nielsen, Nishitha Guntakandla and George Mihaila for running the contest. Companionbots Gracie and Bobby greeted the students. CSE Staff Member Genene Murphy helped to organize the competition.

NACLO is an educational competition in Computational Linguistics, the science of designing computer algorithms to solve linguistic problems. More information about NACLO is available at this HiLT page http://hilt.cse.unt.edu/naclo.html