Juno Rainey 11MSB recently returned from the Netherlands where they were part of the New Zealand team taking part in the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics programming competition.

The Commerce Department is exceptionally proud of Juno's achievements and look forward to where programming will take them in the future.

Here is Juno's report:

From the 17th of July to the 29th of July, I travelled with three girls from around New Zealand to represent New Zealand at the European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics. This is a programming competition for girls and non-binary high school students around the world to compete against the best of the best. I have been programming competitively since last year, and I learnt C++, which is the language we competed with, in January of this year at a programming camp. I competed in the first round of the New Zealand Olympiad in Informatics and was selected to represent the country at the EGOI because I was the highest scoring of all girls and non-binary high school students in the country. We spent April to July training with our tutors, who competed in the EGOI last year, and then we left for the Netherlands. We spent a week in the Netherlands, and over this week we had excursions and lots of interesting events, such as a knowledge fair. 

At the EGOI main event, we had two five hour competitions, and our combined scores from these competitions decided our ranking. Overall, I ranked 150th, which was the highest rank out of the New Zealand team. This experience taught me a lot, and I learnt a lot from my fellow competitors. I got to meet some incredibly talented people, and I got to showcase my talents as well. I can’t wait to hopefully compete again next year, and until then I will be training to do even better next year.

Juno Rainey