Egypt
Egypt hosts the International Olympiad in Informatics with the participation of 96 countries under the auspices of the President of the Republic
Under the generous patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, and based on the Arab League’s belief in the importance of investing in minds, the competitions of the 36th edition of the International Olympiad in Informatics will start the day after tomorrow, Monday, organized by the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport during the period from September 1-8, 2024 in Alexandria in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The competitions of the International Olympiad in Informatics will start the day after tomorrow, Monday, with the participation of 96 countries. The opening ceremony will be held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, while the championship competitions will be held at the main headquarters of the Arab Academy in Abu Qir.
Each country participates with a team of four students and supervisors, where students compete individually over two days to solve some problems of an algorithmic nature, where each student tries to achieve the highest result to achieve a medal for his country.
Students are selected through the Olympiad Local for each country, such as the Egyptian Olympiad in Informatics, which is held annually in the Arab Republic of Egypt in cooperation between the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
It is noteworthy that the International Olympiad in Informatics is one of the most important computer science competitions in the world, as it is held under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It is an international competition held annually in computer science for middle and high school students.
The history of the competition dates back to October 1987 during the twenty-fourth conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, when Professor Slagovist Sandov (Prof. Slagovest Sendov) Bulgaria organized an international competition in the field of programming and information technology to direct efforts towards this new field at the time. The idea was widely welcomed and the first International Olympiad in Informatics was held in Bulgaria in 1989 with the participation of competitors from 25 countries.
The Olympiad aims to motivate students to take an interest in computer science and information technology, but its ultimate goal is to strengthen the bonds of friendship between participating students as well as between computer science and information technology experts in the world, as the Olympiad is a meeting place for upcoming geniuses and experts in the field of software and information technology.
