The introductory part of the paper includes the brief description of the current Macedonian educational system, including information about national ICT policy, primary and secondary education curricula, technological...
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The introductory part of the paper includes the brief description of the current Macedonian educational system, including information about national ICT policy, primary and secondary education curricula, technological equipment, the level of using ICT in education, and projects related with ICT. Presently, there is enforced computerization of our country (an enormous increase in numbers of computers in primary and secondary schools, free education for computer illiterate and efforts are made for full computerization of every aspect of the society). This paper is about national informatics competitions in Macedonia for secondary school students, their organization, and scope. Computer Society of Macedonia (CSM) is the organizer of National competitions. The regular activities of CSM also include: organization and execution of seminars for permanent education of IT teachers in secondary and elementary schools, and there are efforts made to influence national education of IT. CSM organizes four levels of state annual competitions with two groups of original problems. The top ranked four contestants at the olympiad represent Macedonia at the international competitions: BOI and IOI. Some of the conclusions or recommendations follow: - state education: IT education, especially programming is not continuous (it should be);mentors fall behind with developments in the field of programming, they need guidance, seminars, materials, all kinds of support;- finances: permanent funds have to be established;companies still do not see their interest to support the competitions, it has to change;- materials: there are plenty of materials, tasks with their solutions, discussions and tests;many of them are available at the IOI official site;but, there is need of further guidance in using them, even including some additional education material;- coordination: the coordination at the higher level is needed, (when and how the young students should start with programming, what should be th
We describe the process of selecting and preparing the Slovak IOI team. The presented information is related to the situation in the year 2007. We present the structure of the Slovak national olympiad in informatics a...
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We describe the process of selecting and preparing the Slovak IOI team. The presented information is related to the situation in the year 2007. We present the structure of the Slovak national olympiad in informatics and of the Slovak selection camp, including the rationale behind their current form. We list several other national activities that help our students acquiring extracurricular knowledge in computer science. We discuss our cooperation with other countries in the region. Finally, we give several examples of tasks used in our olympiad.
Competitions in programming for secondary and high school students in Bulgaria have long traditions. The National olympiad in informatics started in 1985. Even before 1985, competitions on national and regional level ...
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Competitions in programming for secondary and high school students in Bulgaria have long traditions. The National olympiad in informatics started in 1985. Even before 1985, competitions on national and regional level were popular. Bulgaria is founder and the first host of the International olympiad in informatics in 1989. The paper presents the current situation and challenges in the area of informatics competitions in Bulgaria. The structure of the competition system, including the Bulgarian National olympiad in informatics is outlined.
Three decades ago high school computing was highly consistent with academic and professional world. This consistency was destroyed when school curricula began to emphasize information and communication technology skil...
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Three decades ago high school computing was highly consistent with academic and professional world. This consistency was destroyed when school curricula began to emphasize information and communication technology skills at the expense of computer science. Recently many countries began to think how to re-establish informatics education in schools and how to attract pupils to choose optional modules related to computer science. Although informatics is not taught as a discipline in many countries, pupils are invited to participate in different contests on informatics organized all over the world. When pupils get interested in programming contests, they are looking for training and gain some informatics education. Contests are exceptionally valuable for motivating and involving pupils in computer science. The current paper discusses the contests and olympiads in informatics arranged internationally and continuously. The main attention is paid to the model of International olympiad in informatics and International Contest on informatics and Computer Fluency (named Bebras in Lithuanian, or Beaver in English).
The Task Preparation System (TPS) is primarily designed for preparing IOI tasks. Initially developed and successfully utilized during IOI 2017, it has since been employed in various nationwide and international progra...
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The task preparation system (TPS) is a tool developed mainly for preparing IOI tasks. It was originally developed for, and successfully used in IOI 2017, and since then, it has been used in several other nationwide an...
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This article presents the retrospective of organizing the Republican olympiad in informatics from the first editions. It describes the current model of organizing the competition: steps, target groups, methodologies o...
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While the number of contestants in the Dutch olympiad in informatics was declining, the number of participants in the Bebras contest grew rapidly. In order to reach these Bebras participants for joining the olympiad, ...
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