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 Auckland Training Camp 2009 |
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2009 Summer Training Camp: The Problem Statement
Time Limit: 1 week
Memory Limit: Your brain
You are a young informatician heading off to the NZOI summer camp, a week-long camp held in Auckland. Your task: to negotiate the challenges presented to you, and to maximize your score in the contests.
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New Zealanders Amongst the Winners at the World's Top Computer Programmers International Olympiad
Two New Zealanders have proudly taken the stage to receive bronze medals at the world's foremost and most prestigious programming contest for high school students. Jamie McCloskey from Akaroa and Boris Pfahringer from Hamilton are thrilled with their success in the 2009 International Olympiad in Informatics.
310 contestants from approximately 80 countries took part in the arduous competition. Read more ...
Recent Programming Contest Successes
Two members of this year's NZ IOI team recently did very well in the
4th Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad, 2009. Jamie McCloskey won a silver medal and a third placing while Simon Welsh won a bronze.
Two team members, Melby Ruarus and Jamie McCloskey, also made the high score table of the sixth annual French-Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad.
Well done guys!
Silver Medal at International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2008Cairo, 22 August 2008. Ronald Chan from Auckland is the first New Zealander to have won a silver medal at the IOI, the most prestigious international computer science competition for high school students. The annual event attracts almost 300 contestants from 77 countries, and was this year held for the 20th time. 2008 was the third year that New Zealand participated in this event, but the first time that a kiwi contestant scored a medal.
Read more about the Egyptian contest.
About the NZOI
NZOI is the NZ Informatics Olympiad, one of a number of Secondary School Olympiads operating under the umbrella NZ Science Olympiads organization.
The NZOI's goals are to - Provide training opportunities in Informatics to selected New Zealand students who are currently enrolled in a Secondary School in New Zealand or who have been enrolled in the last 8 months.
- To select students for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) www.ioinformatics.org.
- To foster informatics (programming) in high schools.
The IOI is the foremost high school programming contest in the world. Each year, about August, it is hosted by a different country. New Zealand first sent a team in 2006 to the 18th Olympiad.
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