AIOC School of Excellence

The Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO) is a national programming competition open to all high school students, held once a year usually in late August. The competition is 3 hours in length, and participants are required to solve 4 tasks varying in difficulty, using their choice of programming language within a permitted range of options.

Through participating in the open round of AIO, I was selected as one of the top 26 students in 2018, and was invited to a 10-day intensive training school held on ANU campus. At the training school, known commonly as December Camp, I was taught higher-level algorithms and data structures.

Beyond December Camp

As part of my selection into December Camp 2018, all other attendees and I were also made eligible to sit for two additional informatics competitions by invitation, the AIIO (Australian Invitational Informatics Olympiad) and FARIO (French Australian Regional Informatics Olympiad). Both contests were 4 hours long, and C++ was the only permitted language to be used during the contests.