The fifth annual International Linguistics Olympiad for high school students was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier this month. I was hoping the U.S. would finally join in. It did and fielded two teams, one of which won the team competition. One member of the other U.S. team won the individual competition (results, participants).
U.S. National Science Foundation press release
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
(This year was the first, sort of the U.S. Olympic trials.)
See also my posts:
2006 International Linguistics Olympiad
Results: 2006 Linguistics Olympiad