Thursday 26 January 2012

IOI Workshop 2012

This is posted by LJ's mum.

Every Wednesday 6 - 9.30 pm, both Lim Jeck and Lim Min attend the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Workshop 2012 at the School of Computing (SoC), NUS. About 50 students are attending the workshop - 30 of them are NUS undergraduate students who are taking the 3rd Year SoC elective module (Competitive Programming), the remaining 20 are secondary and JC students who are vying for the final top 4 positions, to represent Singapore in this year's IOI.

Unlike the other International Mathematics and Science Olympiads (IMO, IPhO, IChO and IBO) which will be held in July this year, the IOI 2012 is held from 23 to 30 September, at Lake Garda, Italy.

The IOI selection comprises 10 mini contests (each contest constitutes 1% of the overall score) and 3 selection tests (each constitutes 30% of the overall score). After 2 mini contests in the last 2 weeks, Lim Jeck is currently ranked 3rd and Lim Min is ranked 11th. The current rankings clearly do not give a good indication of the final 4 contestants to be selected for IOI 2012, as they are but based on only 2% of the overall score. The details of the workshop and current rankings can be found here. The trainer, Dr Steven Halim, is very prompt in updating the website - he uploads the results almost immediately after each contest, updates the scores and re-ranks the students by the following day.

In 2011, all 4 IOI representatives were from RI. Up till now, NUS High students have taken part in IMO, IPhO, IChO and IBO, but not IOI. I think NUS High is keeping her hopes up, to send at least one of her students for IOI 2012.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi. I am Steven :). Interesting to see parent monitoring the progress of her children in my training programme. Let's see if this year Singapore IOI team not dominated by RI student. I prefer diversity to maintain good pool of young students spread across Singapore :).

Mum of Min and Jeck said...

Hi Steven,

It's nice to see you drop by here :) I like to know what my kids are doing, and this blog serves as a record of the more significant events at any period of time. Thanks for teaching Lim Min and Lim Jeck competitive programming. Hopefully someone from NUSH will be selected this year, and it does not have to be Lim Jeck ;)

Unknown said...

I googled my own name yesterday and found this link :). Ok, let's see who are in the top 4 this year.

And I also want to see if this year I manage to have a female student (Lim Min?) surviving until Week 13 (no female student has managed to do so in the past 3 years, usually they drop/disappear mid sem :(...)

Lim Min's mum said...

Hi Dr Halim, my take on it is, Lim Min will continue till the end of the training and selection tests. :) She has a competitive streak in her and is hoping to do well for NOI. Before the class started, I jokingly told her that everyone would like her in the class as she might help to occupy one of the last positions in ranking ;) For someone with hardly any experience in competitive programming, I think she does not fare too badly thus far.