 The 2011 NZOI team at
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 Medal winners
Logan and Jamie |
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2011 IOI Medal Successes
Two Christchurch students have won medals at a prestigious international computer programming competition held in Pattaya, Thailand. The two were part of a four member NZ team to attend the world’s premier High School programming competition. The team selected to represent NZ consisted of Logan Glasson (Burnside High School), Jamie McCloskey (Canterbury University), Tom Levy (Hillcrest High, Hamilton) and Tony Sun (Christ’s College). Glasson and McCloskey both received bronze medals at the closing ceremony on July 28.
The annual International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) features over 300 of the world’s top computer science high school students who are selected through national computing contests. 250,000 young people from over 80 countries compete each year to represent their country at the IOI. Glasson won bronze in 2010 whilst McCloskey has previously won bronze medals in 2009 and 2010.
The NZ team was accompanied by Team Leader, Margot Phillipps, director of the NZ Olympiad in Informatics and Deputy Team Leader, Robert Bowmaker.
Other Recent Programming Contest Successes
2010 IOI
At the 2010 International Olympiad in Informatics, held at Waterloo, Canada, August 14-21, 2010, Jamie McCloskey (Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti), Logan Glasson (Burnside) and Boris Pfahringer (first year, Waikato University) all won bronze medals. Read
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2010 AIIO
The 5th Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad was held on Feb 18th.
Jamie McCloskey won gold with a perfect score of 300
Logan Glasson gained the top scoring Bronze medal.
Unofficial NZ competitors Boris Pfahringer and Simon Welsh also got perfect
scores.
Full results are at http://orac.amt.edu.au/aiio/aiio10results.html
2010 FARIO
FARIO is the France-Australia Contest which New Zealand is invited to participate
in. This is the 7th such contest as was held in early March.
Logan Glasson was 3rd highest with 298 and Jamie McCloskey was 10th with 217.
Unofficial NZ competitors Boris Pfahringer and Simon Welsh gained 233 and 232
respectively.
Full results are at http://orac.amt.edu.au/cgi-bin/contests/fario.pl
THANKSNZOI would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Australian Maths
Trust in incorporating New Zealand contestants and in particular the hard work of
Bernard Blackham and his team of contest organisers.
About the NZOINZOI 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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