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About the Indian Computing Olympiad
The Indian Computing Olympiad is a nationwide competition organized annually by IARCS in coordination with CBSE. The goal of the competition is to identify school students with outstanding skills in algorithms and computer programming.
The Indian Computing Olympiad is used to select the team of four students to represent India at the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI). IOI is one of the six prominent Science Olympiads held annually. The other five Science Olympiads are held in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy. IOI-2009 will be held in Bulgaria in August, 2009.
The first round of the Indian Computing Olympiad 2009 is in two parts. The Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO-2009) is a written exam that was held at centres across the country on November 15, 2008. 229 students have qualified from ZIO-2009 for the second round.
In addition to ZIO-2009, students also participated in the Zonal Computing Olympiad (ZCO-2009), an online programming contest that was held on December 20, 2008. 6 students qualified from ZCO-2009 for the second round.
The second round, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI-2009) was be held at centres across the country on January 24, 2009. INOI-2009 involved programming in any one of three languages: C, C++ or Pascal. 25 students have been selected from INOI-2009 for the training camp to be held in June, 2009 to select the Indian team for IOI-2009.
The Computing Olympiad is open to all school students across the country, from any school board.