NZOI provides an opportunity...

...for pupils, excited by computer science and programming at high school, to come together and improve their abilities beyond what is offered at high school. It also provides opportunities for them to meet like minded pupils.

Apart from fostering informatics and programming in high schools, NZOI provides additional training opportunities to secondary school pupils who are passionate about programming and computer science.

NZOI runs a training camp for a week each January.  Four candidates are selected from this camp to represent NZ in the International Olympiad in Informatics, the foremost high school programming contest in the world.

NZOI hosts three preliminary rounds throughout the school year. For the first time, Middleton had four representatives in the first round: Dean Walker, Nathan Smithies, Jared Tinga (Year 13) and Josiah Barnes (Year 11).

Dean and Nathan distinguished themselves in the competition being ranked 6th and 12th respectively. This is a very pleasing outcome. Well done!

There are two rounds left in this year’s preliminaries: the next in June and the last in August. Any pupil interested in participating is encouraged to talk to Mr Baker. Example problems can be found at https://train.nzoi.org.nz – pupils simply create an account to gain access.