- Australian Informatics Olympiad
The Australian Informatics Olympiad is a computer programming competition for Australian high school students run by the Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee (AIOC). The Committee, a department of the Australian Mathematics Trust (AMT) [ [http://www.amt.edu.au/aiochistory.html AIOC History] , "Australian Mathematics Trust"] , holds the 4 hour competition in early September each year. The competition began as the Australian Informatics Competition (AIC) in 1998, and in 2005, was divided into Intermediate and Senior divisions and renamed as the Australian Informatics Olympiad, when the AIC became a pen-and-paper competition. [http://orac.amt.edu.au Australian Informatics Olympiad Programme] ] In 2008, the competition will be run on Thursday, 4 September.
AIOC Activities
The AIOC is the organising body for the:
* Australian Informatics Competition (AIC)
* Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO)
* December School of Excellence
* Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad
* French-Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad
* AprilInternational Olympiad in Informatics Team Selection SchoolThe AIOC also organised the inaugural 2007 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad.
The AIOC is responsible for selecting and taking a team of the four best-performing high school informatics students to participate in the
International Olympiad in Informatics .The AIOC manages an informatics contest server which also acts as a training site for students with over one hundred accessible problems and real-time evaluation of uploaded solutions.
Competitions
Since its creation in 2005, the AIC (Australian Informatics Competition) is the only pen-and-paper competition organised by the AIOC which does not involve the use of a computer or knowledge of programming. The AIC tests problem-solving skills similar to those used in solving more difficult problems in competitions requiring programming. The questions are of multiple choice and short answer format for optical reading and computer marking. There exist three divisions: Senior (years 11 and 12), Intermediate (years 9 and 10) and Junior (years 7 and 8).
Initiated in 1998, the annual AIO (Australian Informatics Olympiad) is a nation-wide computer programming competition sat by students in early September. The competition is four hours long with four programming questions, and is split into Senior (years 11 and 12) and Intermediate (years 7 to 10) divisions. Based on these results, approximately 12 students are selected to attend a 10-day training school at the
Australian National University inCanberra ."Note: From 1998 to 2004, the AIO was termed the AIC, as no pen-and-paper competition existed. In 2005, the old AIC computer science competition was renamed to AIO and the new pen-and-paper competition took the name AIC"
The Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad (AIIO) held annually in February since 2006 is open only to the students selected to attend the previous year's December School of Excellence. Results of the AIIO contribute to the selection of 8 students to attend the April IOI Team Selection School, and to a lesser extent, the selection of the four members of the team itself. The AIIO is more difficult than the AIO and requires knowledge of basic algorithms learned in the December school.
The French-Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad (FARIO) is a joint-managed competition organised by both the AIOC and [http://www.france-ioi.org/ France-IOI] . The competition began in 2004 and is open to any interested students in France and Australia. Results from the FARIO are also used along with the AIIO to select eight students for the April IOI Team Selection School and IOI team selection.
Australian IOI Medalists
The 2008 IOI team members are Xi Chen, Jarrah Lacko, Jack Murray and Harry Slatyer.
The following table lists all Australian IOI medalists ordered by colour and number of medals, then by last year a medal was received. B represents a Bronze medal, S a Silver and G a Gold.
Name Years Christopher Chen G 2007 G 2006 Jack Murray G 2008 S 2007 Jarrah Lacko S 2008 S 2006 David Greenaway S 2002 B 2000 Harry Slatyer S 2008 Peter Hawkins B 2000 B 1999 Xi Chen B 2008 Alex Mathews B 2007 Angus McInnes B 2007 Alex Davies B 2005 David Barr B 2003 Patrick Coleman B 2003 David Burburan B 2001 Adam Kerz B 2001 Cameron Patrick B 2001 Min-Zhao Lee B 2000 Ka-Shu Wong B 1999 Barry Brannan B 1992 Ivan Hamilton B 1992 Notes
External links
* http://orac.amt.edu.au/ (Informatics activities)
* http://orac.amt.edu.au/aioc/train (Training site)
* http://www.amt.edu.au/aic.html (AIC Overview)
* http://www.amt.edu.au/aio.html (AIO Overview)
* http://www.amt.edu.au/ioiol.html (Former Australian Informatics Olympians)
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