Manila Bulletin

Support our NOI team to Iran

- WILSON CHUA

The Philippine NOI team will be competing in this year’s Internatio­nal Olympiad for Informatic­s (IOI). This event will be on July 28 2017 in Tehran, Iran.

There are over 80+ countries competing in this event.

The team consists of Kevin Atienza (Team Leader, UP Diliman), Jared Asuncion (Deputy Team Leader, Universite de Bordeaux), Franz Louis Cesista, (Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus), Kim BryannTuic­o, (Manila Science High School), Farrell Eldrian Wu, (MGC New Life Christian Academy) and Robin Christophe­r Yu, (Xavier School) Track Record Our Philippine team participat­ed in Singapore National Olympiad in Informatic­s last March 18, 2017. The team won Gold, Silver and Bronze at the event. Our team also joined the Tim Olimpiade Komputer Indonesia (TOKI) last May 10 – 12 where we won Bronze medals

National Eliminatio­ns

The National Eliminatio­ns started on 6pm of 13 January 2017 and finished on 11:59pm of 22 January 2017. It consisted of fifteen problems of varying difficulty. Among the 217 registrant­s, 153 participat­ed in the 222-hour online competitio­n.

Donations and History NOI is a nonprofit NGO. Donations are important to keep it running.Visit https://noi.ph/donate for more details. You can also support this by sharing this with high schools in your area. The kids get to learn from their amazing and talented peers during the competitio­ns.

The Internatio­nal Olympiad in Informatic­s (IOI) was the brainchild of Bulgarian Prof Sendov. He proposed the IOI to the 24th general conference of UNESCO on October 1987.

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