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Registration open for ZIO-2009, Saturday, November 15, 2008

Note: Registration for ZIO will stay open till November 14.
The Zonal Informatics Olympiad, 2009 (ZIO-2009) will be held from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, 15 November, 2008. ZIO-2009 is the first round towards qualifying for the team to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics, 2009 (IOI-2009), to be held in Bulgaria in August 2009.

The exam will be held at various centres throughout the country. Exact details about examination centres and how to register are given below.

ZIO-2009 will be a written exam along the same lines as in previous years. Previous question papers and solutions are available online: ZIO-2003, ZIO-2004, ZIO-2005, ZIO-2006, ZIO-2007, ZIO-2008.

About 200-250 students will qualify from ZIO-2008 to participate in the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics 2009 (INOI-2009), scheduled to be held on Saturday, January 24, 2009. As in previous years, INOI-2009 will be a programming examination.

Students interested in ZIO/INOI are strongly encouraged to participate in the monthly online programming contest organized by IARCS. Question papers and test data for past contests are available, as also detailed solutions for several problems. The ICO Online Judge is also available through which you can submit solutions to past problems and get instant feedback about your performance.

Registration procedure for ZIO-2009

Participation in ZIO-2009 is open to all students who are in 8th-12th standard during the academic year 2008-2009. Registration is open till Friday , November 14, 2008 and is being coordinated by CBSE. Students should forward their registration via their school principals. The official announcement from CBSE is available here. (PDF version).

Note: Registration is open to students from all school boards, not just students studying in CBSE schools.

The examinations will be conducted in about 35 cities across the country and West Asia. Each of these cities will have one or more nodal centres which will be responsible for the conduct of the examinations.

Applications for participating in ZIO-2009 should be sent through the school principal. Each school principal is requested to forward the list of candidates participating in ZIO-2009 to the nodal centre along with the examination fee on or before November 7, 2008.

The fee for each participant will be Rs.100/- (Rupees one hundred only). A consolidated demand draft for all the participants of your school may be drawn in favour of Secretary, CBSE, Delhi.

No admit card or roll number will be issued. Instead, when candidates go to write the examination, they should carry with them a bonafide certificate with their photograph attested by the principal of their school.

For any further information, you may contact Prof Madhavan Mukund, National Coordinator, Indian Computing Olympiad through e-mail at madhavan@cmi.ac.in or Shri R.P. Sharma, Consultant Academic, CBSE through e-mail at rpsharma_48@yahoo.com or by telephone at 011-23211200.

IARCS Online Programming Contest

The IARCS Online Programming Contest will resume in November, 2008. Details of other online contests and resources now available ...

India wins three bronze medals at IOI-2008, Cairo, Egypt

The International Olympiad in Informatics, 2008 (IOI-2008) was held at Cairo, Egypt in August, 2008. The Indian team won three bronze medals. The three students who won medals at IOI-2008 are:

  • Pradeep George Mathias, Bronze medal
  • Nadeem Moidu, Bronze medal
  • B Srivatsan, Bronze medal

Team photograph, IOI-2008

    IOI 2008 Team Photo
  • Aayush Singhal, Pradeep George Mathias, B Srivatsan, Nadeem Moidu

Sponsors

We thank all the organizations that have supported the Indian Computing Olympiad in 2008.

  • The ZIO and INOI examinations were conducted in collaboration with the Central Board for Secondary Education.

  • Sasken sponsored the 15 day training camp from 20 June-4 July, 2008 in Bangalore to choose the final team and also provided full financial support for the team's trip to IOI-2008.

  • The following units of the National Council of Science Museums helped conduct the ZIO and INOI examinations.

    • Regional Science Centre, Calicut
    • Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata
    • Regional Science Centre, Lucknow
    • Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai
    • Goa Science Centre, Panaji
    • North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri


  • The International School Bangalore made their congenial campus available to us for holding the training camp in June-July.

Indian National Olympiad in Informatics, 2008

INOI-2008 was held on Saturday, 19 January, 2008. 24 students have qualified from INOI-2008 for the training camp in June to select the Indian team to IOI-2008.

Zonal Informatics Olympiad, 2008

The Zonal Informatics Olympiad, 2008 (ZIO-2008) was held on Saturday, 17 November, 2007. Of the 6750 students who participated in ZIO-2008, 270 students have qualified for the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics, 2008 (INOI-2008).

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