{"id":2214,"date":"2011-02-14T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2011-02-13T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T20:51:22","slug":"linguistics-challenge-for-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/14\/linguistics-challenge-for-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Challenge for high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, several grad students in the department (Alya Asarina, Mitcho Erlewine, Michelle Fullwood, Peter Graff, Coppe van Urk) ran a linguistics &#8220;mini-event&#8221; as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hmmt\/www\/\">Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament<\/a>.  Thirty-seven high school students competed in teams to solve Olympiad-style linguistics problems. This was one of the more popular mini-events, and the first to have a room full of participants. The problems, several of which were written specifically for this competition, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/questions.pdf\">here<\/a>, and some solutions are <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/solutions-partial.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. A special thanks to everyone who test-solved problems for us!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0111.JPG\" alt=\"High school students solving Linguistics Challenge problems\" title=\"IMG_0111\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2222\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0114.JPG\" alt=\"High school students solving Linguistics Challenge problems\" title=\"IMG_0114\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2222\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, several grad students in the department (Alya Asarina, Mitcho Erlewine, Michelle Fullwood, Peter Graff, Coppe van Urk) ran a linguistics &#8220;mini-event&#8221; as part of the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. Thirty-seven high school students competed in teams to solve Olympiad-style linguistics problems. This was one of the more popular mini-events, and the first to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}