UNO Department of Computer Science hosted a computer programming contest for high schools students on Saturday, April 5, 2008. The competition was organized by the South Louisiana Computer League (SLCL), which was founded in 1988 in New Orleans to provide programming contests for students from area schools. The contests are modeled on the college contests sponsored by ACM. The league is open to any public or private school that wishes to join.

Schools in the competition, which took place in the Mathematics Building, came from the Greater New Orleans area as well as Baton Rouge and points in between. In all, 15 teams from 6 schools participated in the competition. Eight teams were entered by Archbishop Rummel High School. Two teams each came from Brother Martin High School and Baton Rouge High School, while one team each came from Ascension Academy, Dutchtown High School, and Dunham High School.

The Veterans Division, for students who have taken more than a year of programming classes, was won by the team from Dunham High School, comprising of John Armstrong, Wade White and Julie Ngo, and coached by Linda Patz. The Novice Division, for students taking their first year of programming classes, was won by Rummel High School Team A. The team members were Chris LeBauve, Chris Jumonville and Cody Koll, and the coach was Brother John Larose.

The award ceremony was held at Kirschmann Hall. At the end of the ceremony UNO CS graduate student Brian Roux gave a talk introducing the high school students to research in the area of Digital Forensics being carried out at the department.