The Association for Computing Machinery University of the Philippines Student Chapter or UP ACM is an organization based in the premiere state university of the Philippines, University of the Philippines Diliman located in Diliman, Quezon City Philippines.

As of 2007, the chapter has attracted 119 members coming from the College of Engineering, Institute of Library and Information Science, College of Education, Asian Institute of Technology and College of Home Economics. About 60% percent or 72 members are enrolled in Computer Science or related courses.

UP ACM's calendar was filled for the whole year. The following events show some of chapter's major activities for the academic year 2006-2007:

Software Freedom Day
Right after Y4IT, the Philippine counterpart Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebration was held at the Engineering Theater of the university. The audience included students, teachers and professionals willing to know more about the latest in Free and Open Source Softwares ( FOSS ). We had a chance to be a part of this event which was hosted by the University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group and the Philippine Linux Users' Group. Chapter members participated in the planning, publicity, securing of the venue used and a side event. For the side event, UP ACM wanted to add a fun factor to SFD so the chapter opted to host a game. The game the chapter chose is frozen bubble, the bubble bobble clone installed by default in some Linux distributions. 27 attendees of SFD participated in the 4 round game and the final round was projected to the entire audience. The winner was awarded a 256 MB flash disk.

World Usability Day
This was a world wide event happening in 115 locations and 35 countries, including the Philippines. The World Usability Day seminar was held last November 14, 2006 at the Network Lab of UP IT Training Center (UP ITTC). The discussion was an introduction to usability. This was delivered by Alvin Tan of the Adobe User Group (AUG). The participants of the seminar were students in the university from different organizations (UP ACM, UP Circuit, UP ITTC) and some developers/designers within UP campus. At the end of the seminar, there was a raffle of caps, posters, shirts, and an O'Reilly book.

Apple Talks
Computing in our chapter is not only limited to Windows and Linux. Apple Mac OS X plays its part in our chapter through an introductory seminar, Apple in Education Roadshow that was presented at the College of Engineering and a technical talk on High Performance Computing held at the UP Diliman Interactive Learning Center. Not only chapter members participated in both events but also faculty and other students from the university.

Philippine Youth Congress for Information Technology (Y4IT)
In its fourth year, Y4IT became the largest IT Congress in the Philippines hosted by the UP ITTC with 10,000 participants from all over the country. For the 2nd consecutive year, over 60 chapter members served as ushers, registrations assistants, technical support, store managers and exhibitors together with 200 other volunteers from different organizations and schools. Volunteer work started as early as June with the planning and publicity while actual congress volunteers helped with manning the three venues - University Theater, Bahay ng Alumni, and University Film Center as well as the implementation of the events. As a partner organization, the chapter was also given a place in the Exhibit Hall for any side event. We had a booth that familiarize the audience with the operating systems currently available by deploying Parallels Desktop on three machines in such a way that you can run Vista and Linux on Mac, Windows on Linux, and Linux on Vista.

CS Week
RoR in an Hour: In line with UP ACM's advocacy to introduce new and promising technologies to the student body, UP ACM sponsored Ruby-On-Rails in 1 Hour (RoR in 1Hr). The event catered to 26 students from different colleges as they were given free lectures and hands-on experiences. Because of the positive feedbacks, one of the CS instructors was interested to include Ruby-On-Rails as a topic in a CS subject.

LOVE @ UP
Through Microsoft Student Partners and in collaboration with the UP Education Society, our chapter was able to hold Love@UP, the Launch of Office 2007 and Vista - an Event at UP Diliman. Chapter members facilitated the event and there were more than a hundred participants that attended the launch.

UP ACM Programming Competition
As its regular contribution to the CS Week, UPACM holds a programming competition. Similar to the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition, teams participating in this competition are given assorted problems which they try to solve within the time allotted. This year's programming competition had 6 teams competing for a 1000 peso prize and was presided by the coach of the teams sent by the University of the Philippines to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Sir Mario Carreon.

Web Programming Tutorials (HTML/CSS, PHP)
As part of our chapter member benefits, web programming tutorials are delivered on a phase-to-phase basis. Starting from the basics of HTML and CSS, chapter members are being equipped to learn advanced skills and new languages. PHP was introduced a week after the web programming basics and is now planning to teach SQL to complete the skillset of its members in the area of web technology.

Engineering Week
EaSy 26 Programming Competition: EaSy 26 is UP ACM's major Engineering Week event and gives the highest amount of points of all the events held by the organization for the week. The name EaSy 26 is derived from Engineering Science 26, a programming subject offered to Engineering students and brings the UPACM programming competition to the different departments and organizations of the College of Engineering. It is the first and only inter-department and inter-organization programming competition held during the engineering week.

Bubbleng and Mobile Game
Bubbleng and Mobile Game Competition is part one of the chapters' events for this years' Engineering Week. Bubbleng is a Frozen Bubble Tournament wherein the participants get to play the game in a Linux environment. This is one way of having people take a peek of Linux operating systems and have fun at the same time. The game might seem easy for the contestants at first but when the contest proper came, it was like we were having a professional tournament. In the end, a computer science faculty beat all the 30 contestants from participating organizations of the Engineering Week. On the other part of the room was another group of students playing Snake in a Nokia 3310 mobile phone. The goal was to be the highest scorer among the participants using only one life. A chemical engineering major won this contest.

Boat is Sinkengg
As its name implies, Boat is Sinkengg is basically the boat is sinking game where participants group themselves according to the certain number stated by the game head. There were about 100 participants in this game coming from the different organizations housed in the College of Engineering. This event shows the lighter non-technical side of UP ACM.

T-Shirt
We carry the name of ACM International in our University and we carry it literally. This year, we were able to produce our first ever organizational shirt. The shirt print was designed and voted for by the chapter members and was available in 2 colors, white and blue. It contained the insignia and name of the chapter with the words "Compute. Compile. Compete." on the right sleeves. Over 80 shirts were made at the end of the three batch orders. The shirts serve as publicity for the chapter and give identity to the chapter members. Every shirt worn is a member saying he/she is proud of his/her organization.

JavaSIG Tutorials
With the assistance of 2 local Java Champions, a head was elected for the UP Java Users Group (Java SIG) that pushed its revitalization. An introductory tutorial on Java was delivered by a JEDI trainer, with the use of the JEDI courseware. The session was held in the UP Java Research Development Center at the UP Ayala Technopark last November 14, 2006. The tutorial covered basic Java which included background of the Java programming language and a hands-on practice on classes, data types, overloaded constructors, parameter passing, methods and command line arguments. It was attended by students from different colleges in the university.

Christmas Party
To celebrate the end of the year and also to reward the members' efforts, the chapter held a Christmas party at the SM Mall of Asia, the biggest mall in the Philippines. The chapter sponsored lunch and one group activity expense, ice skating. Members unwound and enjoyed as they skated at the biggest skating rink in the country.

DLSU Fusion Convention
An opportunity was given to our chapter to participate in this seminar that featured talks ranging from PhilNITS, wireless technology, open source, and podcasting. The activity was like a field trip of around 30 chapter members.

Monthly General Assemblies
As stated in the chapter's constitution, the chapter is to hold monthly general assemblies. These aim to update the members on current happenings and also to inform them of future events and other chapter issues. An average of 50 members attends these general assemblies.