A South African Team to take part in the 2009 International Olympiad in Informatics in Bulgaria has been announced. The team will compete with young people from 80 other countries for Gold, Silver and Bronze in computer programming. After winning through a rigorous four-stage selection process which started in April 2008 with 23 000 participants …..
When announcing the Standard Bank/CSSA Computer Olympiad results for 2008 in Cape Town this week, Peter Waker, a Director of the Computer Society of South Africa, highlighted the opportunities created by a world-wide shortage of Informatics Scientists. The Standard Bank/CSSA Computer Olympiad is an annual competition to identify, encourage and reward programming skills among high …..
With South Africa suffering from a medal drought in 2008, the good news is that a South African did land a bronze; not in Beijing, but in Cairo, and not in sport, but in computer programming. Every year students from about 80 countries from all over the world meet for the International Olympiad in Informatics …..
The Top 50 schools and students who participated in the Second Round of the 2008 Standard Bank/Computer Society of South Africa Computer Olympiad were announced in Cape Town today, together with the names of the learners who have been invited to take part in the Final Round. 22,765 students from 361 schools took part in …..
A South African Team to take part in the 2008 International Olympiad in Informatics in Egypt has been announced. The team will compete with young people from 80 other countries for Gold, Silver and Bronze in computer programming. After winning through a rigorous four-stage selection process which started in April 2007 with 34 000 participants …..
When announcing the Computer Olympiad results for 2007 in Cape Town this week, Peter Waker, CSSA Vice President for Education and Training remarked on how unique this year’s results have been. For the first time ever in the Computer Olympiad finals: Three girls among the finalists Two bothers in the finals One school had four …..
Two South African students won medals at the 2007 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) held in Zagreb, Croatia. The two are part of a team of four that was selected from 33 000 participants in last year’s Standard Bank Computer Olympiad. The IOI is an annual competition for young computer programmers. It is held in …..